This is what happened today in history-
1998- President Clinton impeached
1990- Bo Jackson becomes first athlete named to NFL, MLB all-star games
1917- National Hockey League opens its first season
1972- Last lunar-landing mission ends
1984- Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China
1777- George Washington leads troops into winter quarters at Valley Forge
1732- Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s Almanack” is published
1843- “A Christmas Carol” is published
1997- “Titanic” sails into theaters
1986- World Series parachutist sentenced
1986- Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov released from internal exile
1776-Thomas Paine publishes “The American Crisis”
1941- Hitler takes command of the German army
Read more about each of these events at https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.
