Jody Victor : Today is the 71st day of 2009 and there are 294 days left in the year. Here are some historical events for this day in history.
March 12, 1664 - England's King Charles II granted an area of land in present-day North America known as New Netherland to his brother James, the duke of York.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to the rank of general-in-chief of the Union armies in the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln.
1912 - Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Ga., founded the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of America.
1930 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi began a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his 30 radio "fireside chats," telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis.
1938 - The Anschluss merging Austria with Nazi Germany took place as German forces crossed the border between the two countries.
1939 - Pope Pius XII was formally crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican.
1947 - President Harry S. Truman established what became known as the Truman Doctrine to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, but anti-war Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota placed a strong second.
1969 - Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman in London.
1989 - Some 2,500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American Flag placed on the floor as part of a student's exhibit.