On This Date

1912	The Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America, was founded.
1925	Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died at age 58.
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.
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 nation's 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, the 15-year-old girl who'd 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.

1912	The Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America, was founded.
1925	Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died at age 58.
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.
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 nation's 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, the 15-year-old girl who'd 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.
	Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in New York to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history.