Today is Sunday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2017. There are 42 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight: On Nov. 19, 1997, Iowa seamstress Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to the world’s first set of surviving septuplets, four boys and three girls.

On this date:

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 1850, Alfred Tennyson was invested as Britain’s poet laureate.

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

In 1917, Indira Gandhi, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and, like her father, a future prime minister of India, was born in Allahabad.

In 1924, movie producer Thomas H. Ince died after celebrating his 42nd birthday aboard the yacht of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. (The exact circumstances of Ince’s death remain a mystery.)

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 2002, in a moment that drew criticism, singer Michael Jackson briefly held his youngest child, Prince Michael II (known as Blanket), over a fourth-floor balcony rail at a Berlin hotel in front of dozens of fans waiting below. (Jackson said he’d made a “terrible mistake.”)

Today’s birthdays: Talk show host Larry King is 84. Former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch is 82. Talk show host Dick Cavett is 81. Broadcasting and sports mogul Ted Turner is 79. Fashion designer Calvin Klein is 75. Sportscaster Ahmad Rashad is 68. Actor Robert Beltran is 64. Actress Kathleen Quinlan is 63. Actress Glynnis O’Connor is 62. Broadcast journalist Ann Curry is 61. Actress Allison Janney is 58. Actress Meg Ryan is 56. Actress-director Jodie Foster is 55. Actress Terry Farrell is 54. TV chef Rocco DiSpirito is 51. Actor Jason Scott Lee is 51. Dancer-choreographer Savion Glover is 44. Olympic gold medal gymnast Kerri Strug is 40. Movie director Barry Jenkins (Film: “Moonlight”) is 38. Actor Adam Driver is 34. Country singer Cam is 33. Actress Samantha Futerman is 30. Rapper Tyga is 28.

Thought for today: “Make haste slowly.” — Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor (63 B.C.-A.D. 14).

Associated Press