Today is Friday, July 6, the 188th day of 2012. There are 178 days left in the year.

1483 _ England's King Richard III crowned

1535 _ Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason

1687 _ Newton publishes ``Principia"

1776 _ Declaration of Independence announced on front page of the ``PA Evening Gazette"

1785 _ Congress resolves U.S. currency named ``dollar" and adopts decimal coinage

1885 _ First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur

1923 _ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics formed

1933 _ First All-Star baseball game, AL wins 5-2 (Chicago's Comiskey Park)

1967 _ Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade

1983 _ Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less