On this day: December 19

POSTED: 03:58 PM PST Dec 18, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Dec 18, 2012 

"A Christmas Carol" is first published, the NHL plays its first games, Apollo 17 splashes down, and the U.S. House impeaches President Bill Clinton, all on this day.

OTD December 19 - VC Andrews
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1986: American author V. C. Andrews, whose best-known novel is the infamous 1979 bestseller "Flowers in the Attic," dies of breast cancer at the age of 63 in Virginia Beach, Va.

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