On This Day: March 12 On March 12, 1947, President Truman established what became known as the Truman Doctrine to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism. On March 12, 1858, Adolph Simon Ochs, the American publisher who built The New York Times into one of the worlds top newspapers, was born. Following his death on April 8, 1935, his obituary appeared in The Times. 1862 Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to the rank of general-in-chief of the Union armies in the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln. 1912 The Girl Guides, the forerunner of the Girl Scouts of America, was founded. 1930 Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi began a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt. 1938 The Anschluss took place as German troops entered Austria. Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland the following day. 1939 Pope Pius XII was crowned at the Vatican. 1951 The cartoon Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham made its syndicated debut in 16 newspapers. 1969 Rock musician Paul McCartney of the Beatles married Linda Eastman in London. 1980 A Chicago jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. 1987 The musical Les Miserables opened on Broadway. 1993 Janet Reno was sworn in as the nations first female attorney general. 1994 The Church of England ordained its first female priests. 1999 The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO. 2002 Homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveiled a color-coded system for terror warnings. 2002 The U.N. Security Council approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution endorsing a Palestinian state for the first time. 2003 Elizabeth Smart, a 15-year-old girl whod vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters. 2008 New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned two days after reports had surfaced that he was a client of a prostitution ring. 2009 Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in New York to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history. 2011 The Arab League asked the U.N. Security Council to impose a no-fly zone to protect Libyan rebels. Current Birthdays Actor Aaron Eckhart turns 46 years old today. 1928 Edward Albee, Playwright (Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf), turns 86 1932 Andrew Young, Civil rights leader, politician, turns 82 1933 Barbara Feldon, Actress (Get Smart), turns 81 1940 Al Jarreau, R&B, jazz singer, turns 74 1946 Liza Minnelli, Singer, actress, turns 68 1948 Kent Conrad, Former U.S. senator, D-N.D., turns 66 1948 James Taylor, Singer, songwriter, turns 66 1957 Marlon Jackson, Singer (The Jackson Five), turns 57 1960 Courtney B. Vance, Actor, turns 54 1962 Darryl Strawberry, Baseball player, turns 52
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