Today is Saturday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2014. There are 172 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On July 12, 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale
announced his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate; Ferraro was
the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.
On this date:
In 1543, England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
In 1690, forces led by William of Orange defeated the army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in
Ireland.
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Medal of Honor.
In 1909, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, allowing a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states. (It was declared ratified in
February 1913.)
In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was flown by helicopter from the White House to a secret
mountaintop location as part of a drill involving a mock nuclear attack on Washington.
In 1967, six days of race-related rioting erupted in Newark, New Jersey; the violence claimed 26 lives.

In 1974, President Richard Nixon signed a measure creating the Congressional Budget Office. Former White
House aide John Ehrlichman and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate the civil rights of
Daniel Ellsberg’s former psychiatrist.
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush defended the Iraq war during a visit to the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in Tennessee, saying the invasion had made America safer.