On March 12, 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA had its beginnings as Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia, founded the first U.S. troop of Girl Guides.

In 1930, Mohandas Gandhi began his 24-day, 240-mile “Salt March” to protest the salt tax levied by colonial Britain.

In 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria, as German troops crossed the border into the country.

In 1947, President Harry S. Truman announced what became known as the “Truman Doctrine” to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism during the Cold War.

In 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 for kidnapping; Barzee was released in September 2018.)