The media jumped on the Watergate break-in. Washington Post journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who covered the story, would later uncover Nixon's role in the scandal. In 1974, they published the book "All the President's Men" about the scandal. It was later turned into a film starring Dustin Hoffmann (left) and Robert Redford (right) as Bernstein and Woodward respectively.

With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. The belief is that if he had not done so, he would have been impeached by Congress and removed from office by a trial in the Senate. Here he is seen speaking to his vice president and eventual successor, Gerald Ford (right), in the Oval Office.

The Watergate scandal also introduced an intriguing character. Woodward had given a senior government official and annonymous source the name "Deep Throat." In 2005, former FBI deputy director William Mark Felt, then aged 91, revealed to Vanity Fair magazine that he had been the "Deep Throat" who had provided the two journalists with critical information that brought down the Nixon administration.

The above words would be President Bill Clinton's tagline when he was later forced to admit to sexual relations with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Yet "Monicagate" would prove to be more damaging to Lewinsky than Clinton. Her 2015 TED talk on the scandal, entitled "The Price of Shame," went viral, while "American Crime Story: The Impeachment," which she produced in 2021, cast new light.

2019's "Ukrainegate" shook up US politics: President Donald Trump phoned Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy and asked him to find damaging evidence on Hunter Biden, son of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. In a rough transcript released by the White House (above), Trump asks Zelenskyy to "look into" Biden and Hunter, who was a board member of a Ukrainian gas company.

While the press were the "good guys" in the Watergate scandal, this was not always the case. In 2011's "Hackgate," 168-year-old British tabloid newspaper News of the World was discovered to have illegally hacked the phones of up to 4,000 people in pursuit of stories. After widespread protests, the paper, owned by media magnate Rupert Murdoch, was shut down on July 10, 2011.

During the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, singers Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson were performing together when he briefly exposed one of her breasts in what was later described as a "wardrobe malfunction." Known as "Nipplegate," the event inspired three friends in California to create YouTube, where they uploaded a clip of the split-second snafu for those who blinked and missed it.

In 2017, the Hamburg Consumer Protection Center noted that the beloved chocolate hazelnut spread popular in Germany and elsewhere contained more sugar and milk powder but less cocoa. Angry fans took to Twitter, with some creating the hashtag #NutellaGate. Wry observers, however, pointed to the fans' misplaced anger, as Nutella continued to use palm oil, which contributes to tropical deforestation.

At the 2017 Oscars, actor Warren Beatty wrongly named "La La Land" as the best picture winner. In this photo, Jordan Horowitz, producer of "La La Land," left, holds up the envelope revealing "Moonlight" as the actual winner of the Best Picture award as presenter Warren Beatty (middle) and host Jimmy Kimmel (right) look on. In true 21st century style, it was promptly christened #Oscargate.

The "Partygate" scandal in the UK recently saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson barely surviving a no-confidence vote. Having initially claimed no knowledge of parties and other gatherings of government and Conservative Party staff during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, photo evidence of Johnson at some of these events have forced him to backtrack amidst calls for his resignation.