March 12

On This Day In History
	1947: Truman Doctrine pronounced On this day in 1947, U.S. President Harry S. Truman articulated what became known as the Truman Doctrine when he asked Congress to appropriate aid for Greece and Turkey, both of which were facing communist threats.
Harry S. Truman, 1945
Biography Of The Day
	André Le Nôtre André Le Nôtre, one of the greatest French landscape architects, whose masterpiece is the gardens of Versailles and whose genius was in demand throughout the capitals of Europe, was born in Paris this day in 1613.
Grand east-west axis of the gardens at Versailles, France
More Events On This Day In History
	2003 The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a worldwide health alert, one of the first in a decade, regarding an illness it later called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that struck hundreds of people in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam.
1999	1999 Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic became members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) shortly before the group's 50th anniversary.
1948	1948 American singer, songwriter, and guitarist James Taylor was born.
1940	1940 Finland agreed to Soviet peace terms, including the cession of western Karelia and the construction of a Soviet naval base on the Hanko Peninsula, to end the Russo-Finnish War.
1849	1849 The Sikh army surrendered to the British at the end of the Second Sikh War, conceding to the annexation of the Punjab in northwestern India.
1831	1831 American manufacturer Clement Studebaker, founder of the Studebaker automobile company, was born in Pinetown, Pennsylvania.
	1804 Samuel Chase became the first (and, so far, only) U.S. Supreme Court justice to be impeached.