On This Day in History - March 12 |
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| What Happened On This Day In History - March 12 |
1689 March 12
1689-03-12
The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
1789 March 12
1789-03-12
The United States Post Office is established.
1879 March 12
1879-03-12
The British Zulu War begins.
1884 March 12
1884-03-12
Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
1894 March 12
1894-03-12
Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
1912 March 12
1912-03-12
The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1918 March 12
1918-03-12
Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1930 March 12
1930-03-12
Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1940 March 12
1940-03-12
Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
1992 March 12
1992-03-12
Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 March 12
1993-03-12
The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
2009 March 12
2009-03-12
Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
2011 March 12
2011-03-12
A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japans earthquake.
2012 March 12
2012-03-12
United States Census Bureau - World Population Clock: 7 Billion people in the World already.
