March 12 Events |
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| March 12th, 2005 (March 12 2005) | Event | Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government. | |
| March 12th, 2004 (March 12 2004) | Event | Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation s history. | |
| March 12th, 2003 (March 12 2003) | Event | Zoran Dindic, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade. | |
| March 12th, 1999 (March 12 1999) | Event | Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. | |
| March 12th, 1994 (March 12 1994) | Event | The Church of England ordains its first female priests. | |
| March 12th, 1993 (March 12 1993) | Event | Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. | |
| March 12th, 1993 (March 12 1993) | Event | North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites. | |
| March 12th, 1992 (March 12 1992) | Event | Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. | |
| March 12th, 1971 (March 12 1971) | Event | The March 12 Memorandum, second intervention of Turkish Army, is sent to the Demirel government and Demirel government resigned. | |
| March 12th, 1968 (March 12 1968) | Event | Mauritius achieves independence. | |
| March 12th, 1967 (March 12 1967) | Event | Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia. | |
| March 12th, 1947 (March 12 1947) | Event | The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. | |
| March 12th, 1940 (March 12 1940) | Event | Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population is immediately evacuated. | |
| March 12th, 1938 (March 12 1938) | Event | Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day. | |
| March 12th, 1933 (March 12 1933) | Event | Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats." | |
| March 12th, 1930 (March 12 1930) | Event | Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt. | Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| March 12th, 1928 (March 12 1928) | Event | In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people. | |
| March 12th, 1918 (March 12 1918) | Event | Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years. | |
| March 12th, 1913 (March 12 1913) | Event | Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital was still under construction.) | |
| March 12th, 1912 (March 12 1912) | Event | The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States. | |
| March 12th, 1908 (March 12 1908) | Event | The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia. | |
| March 12th, 1894 (March 12 1894) | Event | In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. | |
| March 12th, 1881 (March 12 1881) | Event | Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world s first black international football player and captain. | |
| March 12th, 1868 (March 12 1868) | Event | Henry O Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. | |
| March 12th, 1832 (March 12 1832) | Event | The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opera de Paris. | |
| March 12th, 1664 (March 12 1664) | Event | New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain. | |
| March 12th, 1622 (March 12 1622) | Event | Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, is canonized a saint by the Catholic Church. | Ignatius of Loyola Quotes |
| March 12th, 0538 (March 12 0538) | Event | Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius. | |
