Today’s highlight

On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On this date

1864: President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the Montana Territory.

1938: The House Un-American Activities Committee was established by Congress.

1971: Don McLean recorded his song “American Pie” at The Record Plant in New York City.

1972: President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)

1994: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. (The marriage ended in 1996.)

2004: Nearly a decade after the Oklahoma City bombing, Terry Nichols was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the attack. (Nichols later received 161 consecutive life sentences.)

2022: It was revealed that the gunman who massacred 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school was inside for more than an hour before he was killed in a shootout with police.

Today’s birthdays

Sportscaster Brent Musburger is 85. Singer Stevie Nicks is 76. Actor Philip Michael Thomas is 75. Singer Hank Williams Jr. is 75. Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait is 62. Singer Lenny Kravitz is 60. Actor Helena Bonham Carter is 58. Runner Zola Budd is 58. Actor Joseph Fiennes is 54. Producer-writer Matt Stone is 53. Singer Lauryn Hill is 49.