On March 12, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi began his famous Salt March to protest the salt tax levied by colonial Britain. In 1912, the Girl Scouts of the USA was founded by Juliette Gordon Low, and in 1928, the St. Francis Dam failure killed over 400 people. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first “fireside chat,” while in 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman announced the Truman Doctrine, aimed at resisting Communism during the Cold War. In 1980, John Wayne Gacy Jr. was found guilty of murdering 33 men and boys, and in 2003, Elizabeth Smart was found alive after going missing for nine months. Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in 2009 to the largest Ponzi scheme in history and was sentenced to 150 years in prison. In 2021, the city of Minneapolis settled a civil lawsuit with George Floyd’s family.
On March 12, notable birthdays include Andrew Young, Barbara Feldon, Liza Minnelli, Mitt Romney, James Taylor, Carl Hiaasen, Lesley Manville, Marlon Jackson, Courtney B. Vance, Tammy Duckworth, Aaron Eckhart, Jake Tapper, and Jaimie Alexander. Today is the 71st day of the year, with 294 days left.
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