1912
\nJuliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.<\/p>\n
1930
\nMohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.<\/p>\n
1933
\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide “fireside chats” on radio.<\/p>\n
1938
\n“Anschluss” took place when Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.<\/p>\n
1947
\nPresident Truman established the “Truman Doctrine” to aid in the containment of Communism.<\/p>\n
1993
\nJanet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.<\/p>\n
1994
\nThe Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.<\/p>\n
2002
\nThe color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.<\/p>\n
2003
\nThe prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated.<\/p>\n
Jack Kerouac
\n1922\u20131969, American Writer.<\/p>\n
American novelist, born in Lowell, Mass., studied at Columbia Univ. One of the leaders of the beat generation, he was the author of On the Road (1957), the novel considered to be the testament of the beat movement.<\/p>\n
George Berkeley
\nphilosopher (1685)<\/p>\n
Vaslav Nijinsky
\nballet dancer and choreographer (1890)<\/p>\n
Edward Albee
\ndramatist (1928)<\/p>\n
Andrew Young
\npolitical leader (1932)<\/p>\n
Liza Minnelli
\nactress (1946)<\/p>\n
James Taylor
\nmusician (1948)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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