On this date
In 1919,
the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.
In 1959,
Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.
In 1969,
Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made the second manned landing on the moon.
In 1990,
the pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because other singers had lent their voices to the “Girl You Know It’s True” album.
In 1997,
Iowa seamstress Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to the world’s first set of surviving septuplets, four boys and three girls.
In 2004,
in one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history, Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers charged into the stands and fought with Detroit Pistons fans, forcing officials to end the Pacers’ 97-82 win with 45.9 seconds left.
In 2007,
Amazon.com released its first Kindle e-book reader.
Ten years ago: The Dow Jones industrial average closed under 8,000 at 7,997.28 — the lowest close since March 2003. Drama and dance critic Clive Barnes died in New York at age 81.
Five years ago:
The Disney animated feature “Frozen” had its Hollywood premiere.
One year ago:
Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader behind the gruesome murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles in 1969, died in a California hospital at the age of 83 after nearly a halfcentury in prison.
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