TODAY IN HISTORY

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July 12, 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.

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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 1812against Britain.

1862

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

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.

1967

Rioting erupted in Newark, N.J., over the police beating of a black taxi driver; 26people were killed in the five days of violence that followed.

1977

President Jimmy Carter defended Supreme Court limits on government payments for poor women’s abortions, saying, “There are many things in life that are not fair.”

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 majorparty ticket.

2017

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Christopher Wray, told a Senate panel that he did not believe that a special counsel investigation into possible Russian ties between Russia and the Trump campaign was a “witch hunt,” as Trump had characterized it.