On this day... Today is the birthday of Jane Means Appleton Pierce. This American lady was born on March 12, 1806. She was the wife of the 14th President of the United States, Franklin Pierce. Today is the anniversary of the founding of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. On March 12, 1912, Juliette Low founded the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. at Savannah, Georgia. Today is the birthday of Jack Kerouac. This American poet and novelist was born on March 12, 1922. Kerouac was the leader and spokesman for the Beat movement. He is best known for this novel On the Road, published in 1957, which celebrates the Beat ideal of nonconformity. Kerouac also wrote: The Dharma Bums in 1958; Lonesome Traveler in 1960; Big Sur in 1962; and Desolation Angels in 1965. Today is also the birthday of Wally Schirra. This American astronaut was born on March 12, 1923. Schirra was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts. A United States Navy pilot during World War II and the Korean conflict, he entered the U.S. space program in 1959. Schirra was the only man to fly all three of the first manned space missions - Mercury, Gemini and Apollo - logging a total of 295 hours, 15 minutes in space. He won an Emmy award for the footage he sent back from Apollo 7, the first televised pictures from space, and later worked with Walter Cronkite on broadcasts of other NASA missions. Today is the anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelts first fireside chat. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats to the American people on March 12, 1933. Speaking by radio from the White House, he reported rather informally on the economic problems of the nation and on his actions to deal with them. Today is the anniversary of Nazi Germanys invasion of Austria. As a test of its own war readiness and of the response of the other major powers, Germany occupied Austria on March 12, 1938. A year later Germany invaded Czechoslovakia and, in September 1939, Poland, beginning World War II.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:41:15 +0000
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