Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12

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• St. Francis Dam
  St. Francis Dam
• Harry S. Truman
  Harry S. Truman
• Juliette Gordon Low, by Edward Hughes
  Juliette Gordon Low, by Edward Hughes
• Mahatma Gandhi (left) and Sarojini Naidu (right)
  Mahatma Gandhi (left) and Sarojini Naidu (right)

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
1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized by Pope Gregory XV.	Ignatius: lots of CN tags; Xavier: unreferenced 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
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

Eligible

• 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi began the Salt March, a 24-day nonviolent walk to defy the British salt tax in colonial India.
• 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.
• 1947 – Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
• 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.
• 2014 – A gas leak caused an explosion in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
• Born/died this day: | Symeon the New Theologian |d|1022| Charles Boycott |b|1832| William Henry Perkin |b|1838| Lilian Faithfull |b|1865| Gemma Galgani |b|1878| Lise Tréhot |d|1922| Jack Kerouac |b|1922| Zhao Wei |b|1976| 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

Franklin Roosevelt after one of his fireside chats

Franklin Roosevelt after one of his fireside chats

• 1881 – Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national football team and became the world's first black international footballer.
• 1913 – At a ceremony at Kurrajong Hill, 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 (pictured) broadcast the first of his "fireside chats" to address the nation directly.
• 1952 – British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed as the first secretary general of NATO.
• 1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the resignation of prime minister Süleyman Demirel.

• Stefan Dragutin (d. 1316)
• William Lyon Mackenzie (b. 1795)
• Wally Schirra (b. 1923)

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