A bit of March 12th history…
1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European to sight New Zealand
1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for 1st time
1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms by Juliette Gordon Low (pictured)
1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
2011 - A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake
Today in History: March 12th