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What Happened on March 12th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019	In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.
2014	A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
2011	A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2009	Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
2004	The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2003	Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003	The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
1999	Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
1993	Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
1993	North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1992	Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1989	Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.
1971	The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
1968	Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
1967	Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
1950	The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
1947	Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1942	The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
1940	Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
1938	Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
1933	Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
1930	Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
1928	In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
1920	The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
1918	Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
1913	The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
1912	The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1811	Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
1689	James II of England landed at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.
1622	Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
1579	Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.
1158	German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
1088	Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
538	Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.

Famous People Born on March 12

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Year	Name
1960	Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter
1963	Candy Costie, American swimmer
1952	André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
1996	Robert Murić, Croatian footballer
1923	Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005)
1881	Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1966)
1921	Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2001)
1994	Jerami Grant, American basketball player
1956	Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier
1823	Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman (d. 1899)

Famous People Deaths On March 12

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Date	Name
2011	Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
1898	Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
1974	George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
2015	Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (b. 1924)
1999	Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
1022	Symeon the New Theologian (b. 949)
1943	Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1991	Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
2006	Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947)
2001	Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (b. 1933)