Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12
March 12: Independence Day in Mauritius (1968), Arbor Day in Taiwan, Canberra Day in Australia.
- 515 BCE - Construction of the Temple in Jerusalem was completed.
- 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi begins the Dandi March, a 24-day, 320-km walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India.
- 1938 - Anschluss Österreichs: Austria was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and subsequently became Ostmark, a province within the German Reich.
- 1940 - The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
- 2003 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić (right) was assassinated in Belgrade.
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