1732 :Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.
1776 :Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls."
1843 :Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol."
1946 :War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
1972 :Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1984 :Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
1998 :President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives.
2003 :Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.
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