Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12

March 12: Independence Day in Mauritius (1968), Arbor Day in Taiwan, Flag Day in Venezuela.

Gandhi at the Dandi March

• 515 BCE - Construction of the Temple in Jerusalem was completed.
• 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi began the Dandi March, a 24-day, 320-km walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India (pictured).
• 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 was assassinated in Belgrade.

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