WikiRug:Selected anniversaries/March 12
This is a list of selected March 12 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Franklin Roosevelt after one of his fireside chats
St. Francis Dam
Harry S. Truman
Juliette Gordon Low, by Edward Hughes
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Arbor Day in China and Taiwan; | refimprove |
| World Day Against Cyber Censorship; | needs 3rd party sources |
| Independence Day in Mauritius (1968) | refimprove section |
| 515 BCE – Construction of the Temple in Jerusalem was completed. | unreferenced section |
| 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ended his siege of Rome, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius. | unreferenced section |
| 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized by Pope Gregory XV. | Xavier: unreferenced section, lots of CN tags |
| 1870 – The Bulgarian Exarchate, the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the other Orthodox churches in the 1950s, was established by the firman of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire. | refimprove |
| 1912 – Juliette Gordon Low founded a youth organization for girls that grew into the Girl Scouts of the USA. | refimprove section |
| 1921 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly adopted the İstiklal Marşı as the national anthem, with lyrics written by poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy and music by Zeki Üngör. | refimprove |
| 1928 – The failure of the St. Francis Dam northwest of Los Angeles resulted in a flood that killed 400 people. | lots of CN tags |
| 1938 – Austria was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and subsequently became Ostmark, a province within the German Reich. | lots of CN tags |
| 1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. | refimprove |
| 1993 – A series of thirteen coordinated bomb explosions took place in Bombay, India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others. | multiple issues |
| 1993 – The Storm of the Century formed over the Gulf of Mexico; at its height its effects were directly experienced by nearly 40 percent of the United States' population. | refimprove section |
| 2003 – Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated in Belgrade. | Đinđić: refimprove sections; Assassination: refimprove section |
| 2004 – The National Assembly of South Korea voted to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun on charges of illegal electioneering and incompetence, a move that was largely opposed by the public. | lead too long; unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Union Army began the ill-fated Red River Campaign, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.
- 1913 – At a ceremony on Kurrajong Hill, Gertrude, Lady Denman, the wife of Governor-General Lord Denman announced that the future capital of Australia would be named Canberra.
- 1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast the first of his "fireside chats" to address the nation directly.
- 1934 – Supported by the Estonian Army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
- 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
- 1952 – British diplomat Hastings Ismay was appointed as the first Secretary General of NATO.
- Born/died this day: Tirso de Molina (d. 1648) · Charles Boycott (b. 1832) · William Henry Perkin (b. 1838) · Lise Tréhot (d. 1922) · Jessica Hardy (b. 1987) · Lazare Ponticelli (d. 2008) ·
Notes
- 1997 military memorandum appears on February 28, so 1971 Turkish coup d'état should not appear in the same year
- Great Sheffield Flood appears on March 11, so St Francis Dam should not appear in the same year
- 1881 – Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national football team and became the world's first black international footballer.
- 1930 – Gandhi (pictured with Sarojini Naidu) began the Salt March, a 24-day walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India.
- 1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel.
- 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee issued the first proposal for what would become the World Wide Web, when he wrote a document to CERN with details of an information-management system
- 2014 – A gas leak caused an explosion in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
Symeon the New Theologian (d. 1022) · Lilian Faithfull (b. 1865) · Zhao Wei (b. 1976)