Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Nov. 19. On this date in 2001, the U.S. government sweetened the pot in its efforts to find the man suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington. A $25 million award was offered for information leading to the location or capture of Osama bin Laden. Advertisement The Cold War formally ended on this date in 1990, when leaders of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) -- composed of NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations -- signed a massive conventional arms treaty following a three-day meeting in Paris. It was on this date in 1919 that the U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which had been drawn up by the Paris peace conference at the end of World War I. As a result, the United States never joined the League of Nations -- even though it was the brainchild of President Woodrow Wilson. It was on this date in 1863 that President Lincoln delivered what became known as the Gettysburg Address at the Pennsylvania field where the Battle of Gettysburg had been fought. His remarks -- lasting only a minute or so -- were not the main oration that day. No, that honor went to Edward Everett, who gave a three-hour speech describing the battle. Advertisement A Houston jury ruled on this date in 1985 that Texaco must pay $10.5 billion to Pennzoil for Texaco's 1984 acquisition of Getty Oil Co. It was the largest damage award in U.S. history. And the first surviving set of septuplets -- that's seven babies -- was born on this date in 1997 to Bobbi McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. McCaughey had been taking fertility drugs to get pregnant. In one fell swoop, the family of three (the McCaugheys also had a 2-year-old daughter) grew to a family of 10. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
