A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published for the first time on this day in 1843. It became an instant classic, its story of Ebenezer Scrooge‘s redemption and the Cratchit family‘s joy often repeated on stage and screen today. 1843.
Park Geun-Hye became the first female to be elected president of South Korea. She also became the country’s first democratically elected president to be removed from office after she was impeached in 2017. 2012.
The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton, charging him with perjury and obstruction of justice. Clinton, the second U.S. president to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate in January 1999. 1998.
James Cameron‘s Titanic, a drama about the doomed ocean liner starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, premiered. It later became one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. 1997.
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States, succeeding Gerald Ford, who had been elevated to the presidency following the resignation of Richard Nixon. 1974.
The Viet Minh, a Vietnamese independence group founded by Ho Chi Minh, launched a guerrilla war against French forces in Vietnam, in response to a French naval bombardment of Haiphong several weeks earlier that had killed thousands of civilians. 1946.
During the American Revolution, General George Washington led 11,000 regulars to take up winter quarters at Valley Forge on the west bank of the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia, which was occupied by the British. 1777.
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