Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12

This is a list of selected March 12 anniversaries that appear in 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 will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt after one of his fireside chats
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  St. Francis Dam
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  Harry S. Truman
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  Juliette Gordon Low, by Edward Hughes
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  Mahatma Gandhi (left) and Sarojini Naidu (right)
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  Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu on the Salt March

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.	refimprove section
1864 – American Civil War: The Union Army began the ill-fated Red River campaign, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.	refimprove section
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 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
1986 – South Korean film director Shin Sang-ok and his ex-wife, actress Choi Eun-hee, who had been abducted by North Korea to make propaganda films, escaped while in Vienna.	Date cited to New York Post which is listed at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources as "generally unreliable for factual reporting"
1989 – Tim Berners-Lee submitted a memorandum at CERN with details of an information-management system, the first proposal for what would become the World Wide Web.	Orange banner: citations needed
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 – Zoran Đinđić, the prime minister of Serbia, 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.	unreferenced section
Charles Boycott |b|1832|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized by Pope Gregory XV.
• 1913 – At a ceremony at Kurrajong Hill, Lady Denman, wife of Governor-General Lord Denman, announced that the future capital of Australia would be called Canberra.
• 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi began the Salt March (pictured), a 24-day nonviolent walk to defy the British salt tax in colonial India.
• 1933 – U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his fireside chats, addressing the nation directly via radio.
• 1934 – Supported by the Estonian army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
• 1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
• 2014 – A gas leak caused an explosion in East Harlem, New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
• Born/died this day: | Symeon the New Theologian |d|1022|Stefan Dragutin |d|1316|William Lyon Mackenzie |b|1795| Lilian Faithfull |b|1865| Lise Tréhot |d|1922|Jack Kerouac |b|1922| Wally Schirra |b|1923| 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

March 12

Andrew Watson

• 1537 – Croatian–Ottoman wars: After the execution of feudal lord Petar Kružić, Croatian forces at Klis surrendered to the Ottoman forces in exchange for their safe passage to northern locations.
• 1881 – Andrew Watson (pictured) captained the Scotland national football team against England, becoming the world's first black international footballer.
• 1947 – Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
• 1952 – British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed the first secretary general of NATO.
• 1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel.
• 2006 – U.S. Army soldiers gang-raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family members.

• William Henry Perkin (b. 1838)
• Gemma Galgani (b. 1878)
• Zhao Wei (b. 1976)
• Arina Tanemura (b. 1978)

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