2017: President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch of Colorado, a fast-rising conservative judge, to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Gorsuch would be confirmed in April 2017 by a 54-45 vote.)

In the world

2001: A Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted one Libyan and acquitted a second in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was given a life sentence, but was released after eight years on compassionate grounds by Scotland’s government. He died in 2012.

Today’s birthdays

Composer Philip Glass is 87. Actor Glynn Turman is 77. Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan is 77. Rock musician Al Jaworski (Jesus Jones) is 58. Actor Minnie Driver is 54. Actor Portia de Rossi is 51. Actor-comedian Bobby Moynihan is 47. Actor Kerry Washington is 47. Actor-musician Justin Timberlake is 43. Country musician Tyler Hubbard (Florida Georgia Line) is 37. Folk-rock musician Marcus Mumford (Mumford and Sons) is 37. — The Associated Press