TODAY’S HISTORY

1912: The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) was founded in Savannah, Georgia.

1930: Mahatma Gandhi and more than 70 supporters began a 240-mile march protesting the British salt tax.

1947: President Harry S. Truman introduced the “Truman Doctrine,” a policy that provided military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of communism.

2002: The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 1397, endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Elaine de Kooning (19181989), artist/critic; Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), author; Edward Albee (1928-2016), playwright; Andrew Young (1932-) activist/ politician; Liza Minnelli (1946-), actress/singer; Mitt Romney (1947-), politician; James Taylor (1948-), singer-songwriter; Courtney B. Vance (1960-), actor; Darryl Strawberry (1962-), baseball player; Aaron Eckhart (1968-), actor; Jaimie Alexander (1984-), actress; Christina Grimmie (1994-2016), singer-songwriter.

TODAY’S FACT: Former President Harry S. Truman was the holder of Medicare card No. 1, which President Lyndon Johnson symbolically presented to Truman on the passing of Medicare legislation in 1965.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1966, Bobby Hull scored his 51st goal, becoming the first NHL player to tally more than 50 goals in a season and leading his Chicago Blackhawks to a 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “It’s one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.” — Edward Albee, “The Zoo Story”

TODAY’S NUMBER: $18 billion — losses suffered by investors in the massive Ponzi scheme perpetuated by stockbroker Bernie Madoff, who pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies on this day in 2009.