Old Farmer's Almanac

In 1909, William D. Boyce, an American traveling in England, was lost in a dense London fog when a boy offered assistance. He guided Mr. Boyce to his destination but refused a tip, explaining that he was a Scout. Boyce asked the boy to take him to the British Scouting office, to meet Lord Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. Boyce liked the organization so much that on February 8, 1910, he and three other men founded the Boy Scouts of America. Two years later, in 1912, Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts in order to give girls the equivalent opportunity!