On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.

General George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to
Valley Forge, PA, to camp for the winter on this day in 1777.

‘The Prayer at Valley Forge’ by Arnold Friberg.

Charles Dickens’ novel "A Christmas Carol" was first published in England on this day in 1843.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870)  

Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific on this day in 1972, ending
the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.

On this day in 1957, "The Music Man" opened on Broadway.

Robert Preston Meservey  (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987)

Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA‘s Apollo program. Launched at
12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 7, 1972, with a crew made
up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans,
and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, it was the last use of Apollo
hardware for its original purpose; after Apollo 17, extra Apollo spacecraft
were used in the Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz programs.

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on  Nazi
Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended
with the Treaty of Paris on this day in 1783.

Treaty of Paris original document.

End of the hostage crisis on this day in 2004.

The NASA spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars on this day in 1976. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the
planet’s surface.

Vincent Thomas Lombardi
(June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970)

Vince Lombardi died in Washington, D.C. of cancer on
Thursday morning, September 3, 1970. He was 57.  
  
 

Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles
("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after
eight days in space at 7:56 a.m., EST.

SANDY KOZEL

The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect on
this day in 1920. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the
basis of sex in the voting booth.

The cause of the Space Shuttle disaster was announced on this day
in 2003.

It was on this day in 1974.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)