TODAY IN HISTORY

1864

President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.

1954

Explosions rocked the aircraft carrier USS Bennington, killing 103 sailors.

1971

Don McLean recorded his song “American Pie” at The Record Plant in New York.

1972

President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty.

2009

California’s Supreme Court upheld the Prop 8 same-sex marriage ban but said the weddings that had taken place before the prohibition passed were still valid.