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Today is Tuesday, July 12, the 194th day of 2016. There are 172 days left in the year.

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1543: England’s King Henry VIII marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

1909: The House of Representatives joins the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submits it to the states. (It was declared ratified in February 1913.)

1967: Six days of race-related rioting erupts in Newark, N.J.; the violence claims 26 lives.

1984: Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announces his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate; Ferraro is the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.

2015: On the final day of his three-nation South American tour, Pope Francis puts into practice his call for the world’s poor and powerless to not be left on the margins of society by visiting a flood-prone slum in Paraguay and insisting that the Catholic Church be a place of welcome for all – sick and sinners especially.

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1991: The Western Reserve Board of Education hears impassioned pleas from two groups, those who want the Blue Devil dumped as the school’s mascot and those who see no sin in keeping it.

A crowd of about 800, including boxing promoter Don King, gathers at Mr. Anthony’s in Boardman to pay tribute to Greg Richardson, World Boxing Council bantamweight champion.

Mahoning County commissioners authorize the clerk of courts to hire and fire deputy clerks at Austintown, Canfield, Boardman and Sebring courts, which will lead to standardization and computerization between the county and common pleas courts. Commissioners also authorize pay increases of up to 8 percent for the workers at the lowest scale, some of whom make as little as $10,400 a year.

1976: A flooded ditch in Austintown nearly claimed the lives of brothers Danny and Teddy Wood, 15 and 14 years old, respectively, whose canoe capsized in a whirlpool at a culvert in Kirk Road. A neighbor, Jack Barton, 39, and his wife, Laura, were credited with saving the boys.

Scores of Ohioans, including many from the Youngstown area, are in the crowd outside the New York Sheraton to greet U.S. Sen. John Glenn of Ohio, who will deliver the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention. Glenn is also a possible running mate for the presumed presidential candidate, Jimmy Carter.

Robert K. McIntyre, 54, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is named safety director for the Western Reserve Transit Authority.

1966: The Ohio Board of Education disapproves the transfer of 32 students from Coits- ville Township from the Youngstown City School District to the Hubbard Exempted Village District. The board says Coitsville parents sought the transfer to avoid sending their children to an integrated high school.

The Youngstown Board of Education adopts a budget for 1967 totaling $14.8 million.

Diana Fortine of Youngstown is one of 16 winners in a national dramatics scholarship contest sponsored by ABC-TV. The $1,000 scholarship is to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

1941: Eight Youngstown youths will be given intensive training in cross-country flying in a course by the Civil Aeronautics Administration at Bernard Airport. They are Irvin L. White, Dwight L. Schrum, Archie Albert Shoup Jr., James P. Owens, Frank O. McClure, Galen Elser, Samuel Belieff and Joseph K. Horne.

Joe, a dog owned by Pat Clemons, who saved the life of Billy Clemons when he chased the child away from the Clemons’ beehives, will have his heroic deed dramatized in a national broadcast from radio stations WTAM and KDKA.