February 10, 2025

This Day in History

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Shimla, Dec. 9 Keekli Bureau

This Day in History

2016

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye was impeached by the National Assembly amid allegations of corruption; she left office the following year, after the country’s Constitutional Court upheld the parliamentary decision.

1998

The United Nations General Assembly declared anti-Semitism a form of racism.

1990

Slobodan Milošević was reelected president of Serbia at the head of the Socialist Party, formerly the League of Communists of Serbia (LCS).

1979

Some 10 years after the World Health Organization began a global vaccination program against smallpox, the disease was officially declared eradicated.

1965

The animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas, featuring characters from Charles Schulz’s popular Peanuts comic strip, first aired on American television, and it became a holiday classic.

1961

Tanganyika became independent, with Julius Nyerere as its first prime minister, and in 1964 the territory united with the island of Zanzibar to form Tanzania.

1958

The John Birch Society was founded in the United States by Robert H.W. Welch, Jr., to combat communism and promote various ultraconservative causes.

1934

British actress Dame Judi Dench, who was known for her numerous and varied roles, was born.

1824

Revolutionary forces under the leadership of Venezuelan Antonio José de Sucre defeated the Spanish royal army at the Battle of Ayacucho.

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