This day in history December 19, 2014 2012: Park Geun-Hye became the first female to be elected president of South Korea; she was sworn into office the following year. 1998: On this day, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton, charging him with perjury and obstruction of justice, though Clinton was acquitted by the Senate the following month. 1997: James Camerons 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. 1974: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States. 1966: The United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Outer Space Treaty, an international treaty binding the parties to use outer space only for peaceful purposes. 1946: The Viet Minh, founded by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh, began the First Indochina War against France. 1915: French singer and actress Edith Piaf, whose interpretation of the chanson (French ballad) made her internationally famous, was born. 1910: Jean Genet, a French criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd, was born. 1906: During his tenure as Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, born this day, developed a doctrine that asserted the right of Soviet intervention in other socialist countries and ordered an invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. 1843: English author Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol which became one of the outstanding Christmas stories of modern literature. 1777: 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, 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Philadelphia.
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