TODAY IN HISTORY

1789

The first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification.

1832

President Benjamin Harrison signed a measure establishing Sequoia National Park.

1919

President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in Pueblo, Colo., during a national speaking tour in support of the Treaty of Versailles

1956

The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London.

1981

Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

1991

Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie died in Lyon, France, at age 77.

2018

Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home.

Birthdays

Former broadcast journalist Barbara Walters is 92. Actor-producer Michael Douglas is 77. Actor Mark Hamill is 70. Actor Heather Locklear is 60. Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is

56. Actor Clea DuVall is

44. Actor/rapper Donald Glover is 38. Olympic silver medal figure skater Mao Asada is 31.