Video: The Yates Children Story

(Tuesday, March 12, 2002) — Houston homemaker Andrea Yates was convicted of murder today in the drowning deaths of her five children in the family bathtub.

Video: Short history of Ivar Kreuger (in Swedish; death at 4:12)

(Saturday, March 12, 1932) — The so-called “Swedish Match King,” Ivar Kreuger, 52, was found shot dead today in his Paris apartment, an apparent suicide, leaving behind a financial empire that turned out to be worthless.

Video: Girl Scouts 100th Anniversary (part 1)

(Tuesday, March 12, 1912) — The Girl Scouts of the USA had its beginnings as Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia, today founded the first American troop of the Girl Guides, a movement which had originated in Britain along with the Boy Scouts.