TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, JULY 12, the 194th day of 2020. There are 172 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1967, rioting erupted in Newark, New Jersey, over the police beating of a Black taxi driver; 26 people were killed in the five days of violence that followed.
In 1543, England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Army Medal of Honor.
In 1909, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for 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 1962, The Rolling Stones played their first show, at The Marquee in London.
In 1974, President Richard Nixon signed a measure creating the Congressional Budget Office.
In 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.
In 1991, a Japanese professor (Hitoshi Igarashi) who had translated Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel’s Italian translator was attacked in Milan.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton, visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first U.S. president to do so since Harry Truman.
In 2001, Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement with the city and its police union.
In 2005, Prince Albert II of Monaco acceded to the throne of a 700-year-old dynasty.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Movie director Monte Hellman is 91. Actor-comedian Bill Cosby is 83. Singer-musician Christine McVie is 77. Fitness guru Richard Simmons and singer Walter Egan are
72. Writer-producer Brian Grazer and actress Cheryl Ladd are 69. Country singer Julie Miller, gospel singer Sandi Patty and actress Mel Harris are 64. Actor Buddy Foster is 63. Rock guitarist Dan Murphy (Soul Asylum) is 58. Actress Judi Evans is 56. Rock singer Robin Wilson (Gin Blossoms) is 55. Actress Natalie Desselle Reid is 53. Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is
49. Country singer Shannon Lawson and rapper Magoo are 47. CBS newsman Jeff Glor is 45. Actor Steve Howey is
43. Actor Topher Grace and actress Michelle Rodriguez are 42. Actress Kristen Connolly is 40. Actor Matt Cook (TV: “Man With a Plan”) and actress Natalie Martinez are 36. Actress Rachel Brosnahan is 30. Olympic gold medal gymnast Jordyn Wieber is 25. Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai is 23.