Historical Events
1609
Bermuda becomes an English territory.
1912
The Girl Scouts of the USA is founded by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia.
1938
Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss.
1947
President Truman announces the Truman Doctrine, pledging to contain Soviet expansion.
1989
Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web.
Famous Birthdays
1685
George Berkeley
Irish bishop and philosopher who argued that matter does not exist independently of the mind.
1824
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
German physicist who formulated Kirchhoff's circuit laws.
1922
Jack Kerouac
American novelist known for On the Road and the Beat Generation.
1928
Edward Albee
Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1948
James Taylor
American singer-songwriter known for Fire and Rain and You've Got a Friend.
