SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2008

Today is Saturday, July 12, the 194th day of 2008. There are 172 days left in the year.

1543 _ England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (sixth and last wife)

1859 _ Paper bag manufacturing machine patented by William Goodale, Mass

1906 _ Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France

1914 _ Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for the Red Sox

1928 _ First televised tennis match

1934 _ U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned

1960 _ Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence

1960 _ USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with two dogs

1970 _ Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky

1984 _ Geraldine Ferraro, N.Y., became first woman major-party V.P. candidate