Today is the 43rd day of 2014. There are 322 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1999: US President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the Senate in an impeachment trial stemming from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

OTHER EVENTS

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

1736: Nadir Shah becomes King of Persia.

1795: The University of North Carolina became the first US state university to admit students with the arrival of Hinton James.

1809:Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky.

1818: Chile officially proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially renouncing Spanish rule.

1908: The first round-the-world automobile race began in New York. (It ended in Paris the following July with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.)

1870: Women in the Utah Territory gain the right to vote.

1909: The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People is founded in the US.

1953: Britain and Egypt agree to end Anglo-Egyptian rule of Sudan and take steps toward granting self-rule.

1998: Cuba releases “several dozen” prisoners, whose freedom was sought by Pope John Paul II during his January trip to the country.

2000: Peanuts creator Charles Schulz dies at 77 following a battle with colon cancer, just as the last original comic strip of his half-century career was being published in newspapers worldwide.

2002: Pakistani authorities arrest Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British-born Islamic militant, as the prime suspect in the January kidnapping of Daniel Pearl, a US reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

2004: Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial in The Hague, accused of war crimes (he dies in 2006 before the trial could conclude). Pakistan charges three men in connection with the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi (they and a fourth man were later convicted of Pearl’s murder).

2007: An Iraqi court sentences Saddam Hussein’s former deputy to death for his role in the killings of Shiites in the Iraqi town of Dujail in 1982. The court ruled that Taha Yassin Ramadan’s earlier sentence of life in prison was too lenient.

2008: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologises on behalf of Australian Government to indigenous people for past injustices.

2009: Teen gunman Sulejman Talovic shoots nine people, killing five, at a Salt Lake City mall before he is shot and killed

by police.

2012: Greece’s parliament approves an austerity and debt-relief bill, crucial for the country to avoid bankruptcy and remain in the eurozone.TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Charles Darwin, English scientist (1809-1882); Abraham Lincoln, US president (1809-1865); Franco Zeffirelli, Italian director (1923-); Michael Ironside, Canadian actor (1950-); Christina Ricci US actress (1980-); Josh Brolin, US actor (1968-).

— AP