table near the president's chair. Years after the Watergate scandal, former White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman would admit that it had been his suggestion to Nixon to make the system voice-activated rather than to be controlled by an on/off switch; Haldeman's thought at the time was "that this president was far too inept with machinery ever to make a success of a switch system." The first conversation, made sometime after 7:56 in the morning, was between Nixon and Alexander P. Butterfield and is saved as "Conversation 450-001" by the Nixon library. Residents of Reggio di Calabria in Italy rioted for five days after the Regional Council of Calabria moved the capital of the regione from Reggio to Catanzaro, away. In what was later dubbed the "fuddle duddle incident", Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was accused of mouthing obscenities at Opposition MPs in the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa. News reports tastefully reported that MPs sitting across from Trudeau had "accused him of mouthing a two-word expression commonly translated without profanity to mean 'get lost'" and that "The prime minister later told reporters that he had said 'fuddle-duddle or something like that'." The incident added the euphemism "fuddle duddle" to the Canadian vocabulary and has made the news annually ever since. February 17, 1971 (Wednesday) For the first time in 12 years, England won The Ashes, the quadrennial Test cricket tournament against Australia, bringing the ceremonial cremation urn (containing the figurative ashes of the sport of cricket for the losing team) back to England. England was represented by the Marylebone Cricket Club, captained by Ray Illingworth and the 7-Test Series came down to the Seventh Test in Sydney, played over six days beginning February 12. In that England had won the Fourth Test on January 14 and four other matches were played to a draw with no winner, Australia would have retained possession of the Ashes it could end the series as a 1–1 draw. England won by 62 runs (England 184 & 302 Australia 264 & 160). Born: Denise Richards, American film (The World Is Not Enough) and TV actress (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills); in Downers Grove, Illinois. February 18, 1971 (Thursday) Greek archaeologists in Jerusalem discovered the remains of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Greek Orthodox basilica that had been built in the 4th century roughly from the Rock of Calvary,