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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. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Korea.]

1998: The United Nations General Assembly declared anti-Semitisma form of racism. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about world organizations.]

1990: Slobodan Milošević was reelected president of Serbia at the head of the Socialist Party, formerly the League of Communists of Serbia (LCS). [Test your knowledge of European history.]

1979: Some 10 years after the World Health Organization began a global vaccination program against smallpox , the disease was officially declared eradicated. [Take our viruses, bacteria, and diseases quiz.]

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. [How much do you know about pop culture?]

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. [Test your knowledge of Africa.]