Today’s Highlights

On Feb. 12, 1999, the Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial of charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

On this date

1554: Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.

1809: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin at Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky.

1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in New York City.

1912: Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.

1914: Groundbreaking took place for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

2002: Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloševic went on trial in The Hague, charged with genocide and war crimes. (Miloševic died in 2006 before the trial could conclude).

2019: Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was convicted in New York of running an industrial-scale drug smuggling operation, murder and money laundering. (Guzman is currently serving a life sentence at the federal supermax prison facility in Florence, Colo.)

Today’s birthdays

Film director Costa-Gavras is 92. Author Judy Blume is 87. Musician Michael McDonald is 73. Actor-talk show host Arsenio Hall is 69. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is 60. Actor Josh Brolin is 57. Actor Christina Ricci is 45.