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Today in History
January 7th, 1789
The United States holds its first presidential election more than a decade after the Declaration of Independence. Americans vote for electors, who a month later, choose George Washington to be the nation’s first president.
1999
In Washington, an [-----1-----] American president [-----2-----] before the U.S. Senate for only the second time in history. Bill Clinton faces charges of [-----3-----] over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He is [-----4-----] the following month.
1979
Vietnamese forces capture Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. As many as 2,000,000 Cambodians died under that regime which had turned the country into a vast [-----5-----].
And 1989
Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, whose decades of rule include World War II and Tokyo becoming an American ally, dies at age 87.
Today in History. January 7th. Mike Gracia, the Associated Press.