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.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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• Ruins of the St. Francis Dam
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Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1928 – The failure of the St. Francis Dam northwest of Los Angeles, California, resulted in a flood that killed 400 people.	refimprove
1938 – Anschluss: Austria was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and subsequently became Ostmark, a province within the German Reich.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
2003 – Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated in Belgrade.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1881 – Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national football team and became the world's first black international football player.

• 1913 – The future capital of Australia was officially named Canberra during a ceremony officiated by Gertrude, Lady Denman, the wife of Governor-General Lord Denman.

• 1952 – Hastings Ismay was appointed as the first Secretary General of NATO.

• 1993 – A series of thirteen coordinated bomb explosions took place in Bombay, India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others.

• 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.

March 12: Independence Day in Mauritius (1968); Arbor Day in China and Taiwan

• 515 BCE – Construction of the Temple in Jerusalem was completed.

• 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ended his siege of Rome, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.

• 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized as saints by Pope Gregory XV.

• 1930 – Gandhi began the Dandi March (pictured), a 24-day walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India.

• 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of Communism.

• 1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces executed a coup by memorandum, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel.

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