Today in History Today is Saturday, Dec. 19, the 354th day of 2020. There are 12 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the Republican-controlled House for perjury and obstruction of justice (he was subsequently acquitted by the Senate). On this date: In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to camp for the winter. In 1843, “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens, was first published in England. In 1915, legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf was born in Paris. German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer, who discovered the pathological condition of dementia, died in Breslau (now Wroclaw), Poland, at age 51. In 1946, war broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French. In 1960, fire broke out on the hangar deck of the nearly completed aircraft carrier USS...
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