Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is July 12. Many U.S. cities throughout the Midwest and Northeast set record high temperatures during July 1995 as the result of a heat wave that pushed the mercury into the 90s and 100s for days on end. On this date in 1995, authorities announced that at least 800 people had died as a result of the heat. Many were elderly people who had been unable or unwilling to air condition their homes. Advertisement It was on this date in 1972 that Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., was nominated as the Democratic candidate for president. He lost that November to Republican incumbent Richard Nixon. And on this date in 1984, Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale named Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., as his running mate. She was the first woman to share a major U.S. political party's presidential ticket. Congress authorized a new award, the U.S. Medal of Honor, on this date in 1862. The award is often called the Congressional Medal of Honor. The U.S. minimum wage was set at 40 cents an hour on this date in 1933. Advertisement And it was on this date in 1996 that details surfaced on the divorce of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Among other things, she kept the princess title but not the title of Her Royal Highness, and received about $25 million in a lump sum -- followed by an income of $600,000 a year. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
