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Re: 7/12/2014
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2014, 04:52:08 AM »

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.
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Re: 7/12/2014
« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2014, 04:52:38 AM »

On this date:

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« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2014, 04:53:11 AM »

In 1543, England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
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« Reply #18 on: July 12, 2014, 04:53:39 AM »

In 1690, forces led by William of Orange defeated the army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
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« Reply #19 on: July 12, 2014, 04:54:04 AM »

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Medal of Honor.
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« Reply #20 on: July 12, 2014, 04:54:45 AM »

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.)
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« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2014, 04:55:17 AM »

In 1943, the World War II tank battle of Prokhorovka between German invaders and Soviet defenders took place with no clear victor.
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« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2014, 04:55:55 AM »

In 1948, the Democratic National Convention, which nominated President Harry S. Truman for a second term of office, opened in Philadelphia.
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« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2014, 04:56:23 AM »

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.
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« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2014, 04:57:06 AM »

In 1967, six days of race-related rioting erupted in Newark, New Jersey; the violence claimed 26 lives.
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« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2014, 04:57:31 AM »

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.
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« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2014, 04:58:10 AM »

In 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."
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« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2014, 04:58:32 AM »

In 1988, Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis tapped Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as his running mate.
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« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2014, 04:58:57 AM »

In 1994, President Bill Clinton, visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first president to do so since Harry Truman.
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« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2014, 04:59:33 AM »

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. Wall Street brokerage Morgan Stanley settled a sex discrimination suit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, agreeing to pay $54 million.
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