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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. More Events on this day: 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: 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: 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.

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.

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