It happened on… February 12

Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is found guilty on all 10 federal charges in New York after 200 hours of testimony.

Mattel announces that Barbie and Ken are splitting up. The two dolls had “met” in a 1961 commercial.

The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, brought by the United Nations for war crimes in The Hague, begins. He dies four years later, before his fate is decided.

The band The Police records its first song, “Fall Out,” at Pathway Studios in London.

Designer Christian Dior literally sets postwar fashion ablaze with his first “New Look” fashion show, restoring Paris’s status as the fashion capital of the world.

Frederick W. Thayer invents the baseball catcher’s mask.