Associated Press

On July 12, 1543, England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Army Medal of Honor.

In 1908, comedian Milton Berle was born Mendel Berlinger in New York City.

In 1909, the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states.

In 1965, the Beach Boys single “California Girls” was released by Capitol Records.

In 1974, President Richard Nixon signed a measure creating the Congressional Budget Office.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first U.S. president to do so since Harry Truman.