TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2018. There are 42 days left in the year.

HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

• Talk show host Larry King is 85. • Former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch is 83. • Talk show host Dick Cavett is 82. • Broadcasting and sports mogul Ted Turner is 80. • Former Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is 79. • Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson is 77. • Fashion designer Calvin Klein is 76. • Sportscaster Ahmad Rashad is 69. • Actor Robert Beltran is 65. • Actress Kathleen Quinlan is 64. • Broadcast journalist Ann Curry is 62. • Former NASA astronaut Eileen Collins is 62. • Actress Allison Janney is 59. • Actress Meg Ryan is 57. • Actress-director Jodie Foster is 56. • Olympic gold medal runner Gail Devers is 52. • Olympic gold medal gymnast Kerri Strug is 41.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.” — Christopher Morley, American author and journalist (1890-1957).

ON THIS DATE

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 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.

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 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.