JULY 12
1984:Rep. Geraldine Ferraro
of New York joins the Democratic ticket as presidential candidate
Walter F. Mondale's running mate and the first woman to run on the
ticket of a major party. Days later, Mondale and Ferraro will become the
party's nominees at the Democratic National Convention in San
Francisco.
1543: King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Parr, his
sixth and final wife, at Hampton Court Palace in London, only a year
after the king had his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, beheaded for
treason and adultery.
1960: French electrician André Cassagnes' popular drawing toy
invention, the Etch A Sketch, is first manufactured by the Ohio Art
Company in Bryan, Ohio.
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