Calendar for March 12th, 2010

2001: Commonwealth Day (Gibraltar)

Born 1710: Thomas Augustine Arne (composer)

1789: United States Post Office was established

Born 1795: William Lyon Mackenzie (politician)

Born 1806: Jane Means Appleton Pierce (U.S. First Lady)

Born 1831: Clement Studebaker (wagon, carriage, & auto manufacturer)

Born 1835: Simon Newcomb (astronomer & mathematician)

Born 1862: Jane Delano (nurse)

1912: Girl Scouts started by Juliette Low in Savannah, Georgia

Born 1921: Gordon MacRae (actor)

Born 1922: Jack Kerouac (author)

1925: First transatlantic radio broadcast made

Died 1925: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman)

Born 1928: Edward Albee (dramatist)

1930: Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi began his second civil disobedience campaign to protest the British government's salt tax

Born 1932: Andrew Young (politician)

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" to the nation

1938: Germany invaded and annexed Austria (WW II)

1939: Pope Pius XII crowned

Born 1940: Al Jarreau (singer)

Born 1941: Barbara Feldon (actress)

Born 1942: Paul Kanter (musician)

Born 1946: Liza Minnelli (singer)

Born 1948: James Taylor (musician)

Died 1955: Charlie Parker (jazz saxophonist)

Born 1962: Darryl Strawberry (baseball player)

1964: Less than a year after signing the bill that made the New Hampshire Lottery the first state-run lottery in America, New Hampshire Governor John W. King purchased the first New Hampshire Lottery "Sweepstakes" ticket

1969: Beatle Paul McCartney married photographer Linda Eastman

1985: Boston Celtics' Larry Bird scored 60 points in a basketball game against Atlanta Hawks

1987: Les Misérables opened on Broadway

1993: Janet Reno became the first woman to serve as attorney general of the U.S.

2008: Lance Mackey won his second consecutive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race