TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Tuesday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2022. There are 172 days left in the year. On this date in:

1543: England’s King Henry VIII married

his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr. 1812: United States forces led by Gen. William Hull entered Canada during the War of 1812 against Britain. (However, Hull retreated shortly thereafter to Detroit.)

1862: During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Army Medal of Honor.

1908: Comedian Milton Berle was born

Mendel Berlinger in New York City.

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.)

1965: The Beach Boys single “California

Girls” was released by Capitol Records. 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. 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.

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.

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.