Today is Friday, March 12, the 71st day of 2010. There are 294 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his 30 radio “Fireside Chats,” telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation’s economic crisis.
ON THIS DATE
In 1664, England’s King Charles II granted an area of land in present-day North America known as New Netherland to his brother James, the Duke of York.
In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to the rank of general-in-chief of the Union armies by President Abraham Lincoln.
In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Ga., founded the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America.
In 1930, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi began a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt.
In 1938, the Anschluss merging Austria with Nazi Germany took place as German forces crossed the border between the two countries.
In 1939, Pope Pius XII was formally crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican.
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman established what became known as the “Truman Doctrine” to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson won the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
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