March 12
1864 - 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 - Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nationwide "fireside chats" on radio.
1938 - "Anschluss" took place when Adolf Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.
1939 - Pope Pius XII was crowned at the Vatican.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communism.
1980 - A Chicago jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. (The next day, Gacy was sentenced to death; he was executed in May 1994.)
1993 - Janet reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general in U.S. history.
1994 - The Church of England ordained female priests for the first time in 460 years.
1999 - The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO.
2002 - The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
2002 - The U.N. Security Council approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution endorsing a Palestinian state for the first time.
2003 - The prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. (Mitchell is serving a life sentence; Barzee was released from prison in September 2018.)
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; he would be sentenced to 150 years behind bars. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.)
2011 - The Arab League asked the U.N. Security Council to impose a no-fly zone to protect Libyan rebels.
2020 - The stock market had its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987 as fears of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis deepened; the Dow industrials plunged more than 2,300 points, or 10%.
2021 - The city of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody, as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial.
Birthdays
24 - Alexis Clark (model)
28 - Tyler Patrick Jones (actor)
29 - Anna Clendening (singer)
38 - Jaimie Alexander (actress)
41 - Holly Williams (singer)
43 - Rhys Coiro (actor)
53 - Jake Tapper (reporter)
54 - Aaron Eckhart (actor)
59 - Jake Weber (actor)
59 - Julia Campbell (actress)
60 - Daryl Strawberry (baseball player)
60 - Titus Welliver (actor)
62 - Courtney Vance (actress)
62 - Jason Beghe (actor)
65 - Marlon Jackson (singer)
65 - Jerry Levine (actor)
72 - Jon Provost (actor)
74 - James Taylor (singer)
76 - Liza Minnelli (actress/singer)
89 - Barbara Feldon (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 12
1966 - Bobby Hull sets an NHL record with his 51st goal of the season.
1985 - Larry Bird sets a Boston Celtics franchise record 60 points in a game.
1987 - David Robinson of the U.S. Naval Academy scores 50 points in an NCAA Tournament game.
2020 - The NCAA canceled its postseason basketball tournaments because of the coronavirus, after earlier planning to play in empty arenas.
2020 - The NHL joined the NBA in suspending play. Major League Baseball delayed the start of its season by at least two weeks. (An abbreviated 60-game season would begin in July.)
1864 - 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 - Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nationwide "fireside chats" on radio.
1938 - "Anschluss" took place when Adolf Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.
1939 - Pope Pius XII was crowned at the Vatican.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communism.
1980 - A Chicago jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. (The next day, Gacy was sentenced to death; he was executed in May 1994.)
1993 - Janet reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general in U.S. history.
1994 - The Church of England ordained female priests for the first time in 460 years.
1999 - The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO.
2002 - The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
2002 - The U.N. Security Council approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution endorsing a Palestinian state for the first time.
2003 - The prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. (Mitchell is serving a life sentence; Barzee was released from prison in September 2018.)
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; he would be sentenced to 150 years behind bars. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.)
2011 - The Arab League asked the U.N. Security Council to impose a no-fly zone to protect Libyan rebels.
2020 - The stock market had its biggest drop since the Black Monday crash of 1987 as fears of economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis deepened; the Dow industrials plunged more than 2,300 points, or 10%.
2021 - The city of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody, as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial.
Birthdays
24 - Alexis Clark (model)
28 - Tyler Patrick Jones (actor)
29 - Anna Clendening (singer)
38 - Jaimie Alexander (actress)
41 - Holly Williams (singer)
43 - Rhys Coiro (actor)
53 - Jake Tapper (reporter)
54 - Aaron Eckhart (actor)
59 - Jake Weber (actor)
59 - Julia Campbell (actress)
60 - Daryl Strawberry (baseball player)
60 - Titus Welliver (actor)
62 - Courtney Vance (actress)
62 - Jason Beghe (actor)
65 - Marlon Jackson (singer)
65 - Jerry Levine (actor)
72 - Jon Provost (actor)
74 - James Taylor (singer)
76 - Liza Minnelli (actress/singer)
89 - Barbara Feldon (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 12
1966 - Bobby Hull sets an NHL record with his 51st goal of the season.
1985 - Larry Bird sets a Boston Celtics franchise record 60 points in a game.
1987 - David Robinson of the U.S. Naval Academy scores 50 points in an NCAA Tournament game.
2020 - The NCAA canceled its postseason basketball tournaments because of the coronavirus, after earlier planning to play in empty arenas.
2020 - The NHL joined the NBA in suspending play. Major League Baseball delayed the start of its season by at least two weeks. (An abbreviated 60-game season would begin in July.)
