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Selected anniversaries
15th
1916
– U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson
signs a bill incorporating the
Boy Scouts of America
, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
19th
1977
– Death of
Olave Baden-Powell
30th
1937
– First National Jamboree, held at Washington, DC. Ran June 30-July 9. Was to have been in 1935, but was cancelled due to a polio epidemic.
1950
– Second National Jamboree, held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, begins. Ran June 30-July 6.