Today is Monday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2010. There are 172 days left in the year.
1543 _ England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (sixth & last wife)
1817 _ First flower show held (Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland)
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
1933 _ Congress passes first minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1960 _ Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
1967 _ Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested
1970 _ Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
1977 _ First free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise