On This Day:
Wednesday March 12, 2014 This is the 71st day of the year, with 294 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: arteries, veins, and capillaries There are three types of blood vessels: arteries, veins, and capillaries. Arteries carry blood away from the heart, while veins carry blood toward the heart. Arteries divide into smaller vessels called arterioles, which in turn divide into capillaries. From there, the blood flows into venules and then into veins on its way back to the heart.
Holidays Feast day of St. Alphege, St. Bernard of Winchester, St. Gregory, St. Maximilian of Theveste, St. Mura, St. Paul Aurelian, St. Theophanes, and St. Pionius.
Mauritius: Independence Day.
Events 1609 - Bermuda became a British colony.
1664 - New Jersey became a British colony as King Charles II granted the land to his brother James, the Duke of York.
1884 - Mississippi authorized the first state-supported college for women, the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College.
1894 - Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
1901 - Industrialist Andrew Carnegie offered the of New York City $5.2 million for the construction of 65 branch libraries.
1912 - Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America.
1930 - India's Mohandas Gandhi began a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt and symbolic of his defiance of British rule in India.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio "Fireside Chats."
1938 - German troops marched into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. This was called the "Anschluss."
1947 - President Harry Truman established what became known as the "Truman Doctrine" to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
1951 - "Dennis the Menace," created by cartoonist Hank Ketcham, made its syndicated debut in 16 newspapers.
1993 - Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the U.S..
1994 - The Church of England ordained its first female priests.
1999 - Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic joined NATO.
Births 1831 - Clement Studebaker, American automobile manufacturer.
1832 - Charles Boycott, Irish estate manager who refused to lower rents in hard times; the tenants retaliated by refusing to do business with Boycott, thus creating the term "boycott."
1858 - Adolph Simon Ochs, American publisher of "The New York Times."
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer.
1922 - Jack Kerouac, American poet and novelist, leader of the Beat movement.
1928 - Edward Albee, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
1946 - Liza Minnelli, American singer, Academy Award-winning actress.
1948 - James Taylor, American singer, songwriter.
Deaths 1945 - Anne Frank, Dutch Jewish diarist, died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp.
1955 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist.
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