On This Day for December 19 - Articles of impeachment approved against U.S. President Bill Clinton, Leonid Brezhnev is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. December 19 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Leonid Brezhnev READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1998 Articles of impeachment approved against U.S. President Bill Clinton READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2012: Park Geun-Hye became the first female to be elected president of South Korea; she was sworn into office the following year; however, she also became the country's first democratically elected president to be removed from office when she was impeached in 2017. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Korea and China.] 1997: 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. [Test your knowledge of the blockbuster Titanic.] 1974: 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. [Discover the disorderly history of the U.S. presidential succession order.] 1971: The sci-fi drama A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of a novel by Anthony Burgess, had its world premiere; although widely acclaimed, the movie's violent and sexually explicit scenes proved controversial, and it received an X rating when released in the United States. [How much do you know about Stanley Kubrick?] 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. [Take our quiz about astronomy and space.] 1946: The Viet Minh, founded by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh, began the First Indochina War against France. [Test your knowledge of the history of warfare.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1933 Cicely Tyson American actress 1915 Edith Piaf French singer 1906 Leonid Brezhnev president of Soviet Union 1683 Philip V king of Spain 1961 Reggie White American football player 1934 Pratibha Patil president of India SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help