Leonid Brezhnev Born, Norman Thomas Dead, Clinton Justice

On this day: December 19

John Paul Stevens appointed as a justice of the SCOTUS (1975)

The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate (1998)

The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three (2000)

President B. Hussein Obama is selected as Time Magazine's Person of the Year (2012)

b: Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Phil Ochs (1940); d: Norman Thomas (1968), Robert Bork (2012)

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