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