• Today is Tuesday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2013. There are 42 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
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• On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
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• On this date:
• In 1600, King Charles I of England was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
• In 1794, the United States and Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
• In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was born in Orange Township, Ohio.
• In 1887, American poet Emma Lazarus, who'd written "The New Colossus" to help raise money for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, died in New York at age 38.
• In 1919, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY') by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.
• In 1942, during World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.
• 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 1997, Iowa seamstress Bobbi McCaughey (mih-KOY') gave birth to septuplets, four boys and three girls. The space shuttle Columbia zoomed into orbit on a two-

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