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2012: Park Geun-Hye became the first female to be elected president of South Korea; she was sworn into office the following year; however, she also became the country's first democratically elected president to be removed from office when she was impeached in 2017. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Korea and China.]

1997: James Cameron's Titanic, a drama about the doomed ocean liner starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, premiered; it later became one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. [Test your knowledge of the blockbuster Titanic.]

1974: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States, succeeding Gerald Ford, who had been elevated to the presidency following the resignation of Richard Nixon. [Discover the disorderly history of the U.S. presidential succession order.]

1971: The sci-fi drama A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of a novel by Anthony Burgess, had its world premiere; although widely acclaimed, the movie's violent and sexually explicit scenes proved controversial, and it received an X rating when released in the United States. [How much do you know about Stanley Kubrick?]

1966: The United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Outer Space Treaty, an international treaty binding the parties to use outer space only for peaceful purposes. [Take our quiz about astronomy and space.]

1946: The Viet Minh, founded by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh, began the First Indochina War against France. [Test your knowledge of the history of warfare.]