1930
The Salt March
Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.
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1912
Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.
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1930
Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.
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1933
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide "fireside chats" on radio.
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1938
"Anschluss" took place when Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.
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1947
President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communism.
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1993
Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.
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1994
The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.
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2002
The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.
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2003
The prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated.
