Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12: Difference between revisions
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'''[[March 12]]''': [[ | '''[[March 12]]''': '''[[Commonwealth Day]]''' ([[2007]]<!-- 2nd Monday in March-->); [[Independence Day]] in '''[[Mauritius]]''' ([[1968]]); '''[[Arbor Day]]''' in [[China]]. | ||
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[[Image:Gandhi Salt March-cropped.jpg|100px|Gandhi at the Dandi March]] | [[Image:Gandhi Salt March-cropped.jpg|100px|Gandhi at the Dandi March]] | ||
Revision as of 22:26, 5 March 2007
March 12: Commonwealth Day (2007); Independence Day in Mauritius (1968); Arbor Day in China.
Template:*mp 515 BCE - Construction of the Temple in Jerusalem was completed. Template:*mp 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi began the Dandi March, a 24-day, 320-km walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India (pictured). Template:*mp 1938 - Anschluss Österreichs: Austria was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and subsequently became Ostmark, a province within the German Reich. Template:*mp 1940 - The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. Template:*mp 2003 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated in Belgrade.
Recent days: March 11 – March 10 – March 9
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