Monday, March 12, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 12
1912:The American Girl Guides, the female scouting organization that will become the Girl Scouts, is founded in Savannah, Ga., by Juliette Gordon Low. From Low's first meeting with 18 girls, the organization has now grown to 3.7 million members.

1894: The first bottles of Coca-Cola, created by John Pemberton of Atlanta, are sold. Its formula is still a tightly guarded secret.

1930:
Indian spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi begins leading followers on a famous "salt march," from Sabarmati, India, to the Arabian Sea town of Dandi, 240 miles away. Gandhi's civil disobedience march is intended to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
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