সম্পাদনা করছেন: ওয়ার্ল্ডপিডিয়া:Selected anniversaries/March 12

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File:FDRfiresidechat2.jpg|Franklin Roosevelt after one of his fireside chats
File:St Francis Dam crop.jpg|St. Francis Dam
File:Harry S. Truman.jpg|Harry S. Truman
File:Edward Hughes - Juliette Gordon Low - Google Art Project.jpg|Juliette Gordon Low, by Edward Hughes
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==Ineligible==
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| '''[[Arbor Day]]''' in China and Taiwan; 
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| '''[[World Day Against Cyber Censorship]]'''; 
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| [[List of national independence days|Independence Day]] in '''[[Mauritius]]''' ([[1968]])
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| [[510s BC|515 BCE]] – Construction of the '''[[Temple in Jerusalem]]''' was completed.
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| [[538]] – [[Vitiges]], [[Germanic kingship|king]] of the [[Ostrogoths]], ended his '''[[Siege of Rome (537–538)|siege of Rome]]''', leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, [[Belisarius]].
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| [[1622]] – '''[[Ignatius of Loyola]]''' and '''[[Francis Xavier]]''', founders of the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]], were [[canonization|canonized]] by [[Pope Gregory&nbsp;XV]].
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| [[1870]] – The '''[[Bulgarian Exarchate]]''', the official name of the [[Bulgarian Orthodox Church]] before its [[autocephaly]] was recognized by the other [[Eastern Christianity|Orthodox churches]] in the 1950s, was established by the [[firman]] of [[Ottoman dynasty|Sultan]] [[Abdülaziz]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]].
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| [[1912]] – [[Juliette Gordon Low]] founded a youth organization for girls that grew into the '''[[Girl Scouts of the USA]]'''.
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| [[1921]] – The [[Turkish Grand National Assembly]] adopted the '''''[[İstiklal Marşı]]''''' as the national anthem, with lyrics written by poet [[Mehmet Akif Ersoy]] and music by [[Zeki Üngör]].
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| [[1928]] – The failure of the '''[[St. Francis Dam]]''' northwest of [[Los Angeles]] resulted in a flood that killed 400 people.
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| [[1938]] – Austria was '''[[Anschluss|occupied]]''' by the [[Wehrmacht]], and subsequently became [[Ostmark (Austria)|Ostmark]], a province within the [[Nazi Germany|German Reich]]. 
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|  [[1940]] – The '''[[Moscow Peace Treaty]]''' was signed, ending the [[Winter War]] between Finland and the Soviet Union.
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| [[1993]] – A series of '''[[1993 Bombay bombings|thirteen coordinated bomb explosions]]''' took place in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others.
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| [[1993]] – The '''[[1993 Storm of the Century|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.
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|  [[2003]] – Serbian Prime Minister '''[[Zoran Đinđić]]''' [[Assassination of Zoran Đinđić|was assassinated]] in [[Belgrade]].
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| [[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.
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==Eligible==
* [[1864]] – [[American Civil War]]: The [[Union Army]] began the ill-fated '''[[Red River Campaign]]''', in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.
* [[1933]] – U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] broadcast the first of his "'''[[fireside chats]]'''" to address the nation directly.
* [[1934]] – Supported by the [[Estonian Army]], '''[[Konstantin Päts]]''' staged a coup d'état, beginning the [[Era of Silence]]<!--not bold, refimprove-->.
* [[1947]] – [[Cold War]]: U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] proclaimed the '''[[Truman Doctrine]]''' to help stem the spread of [[communism]].
* [[1952]] – British diplomat '''[[Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay|Hastings Ismay]]''' was appointed as the first [[Secretary General of NATO]].
* Born/died this day: '''[[Tirso de Molina]]''' (d.&nbsp;1648){{·}} '''[[Charles Boycott]]''' (b.&nbsp;1832){{·}} '''[[William Henry Perkin]]''' (b.&nbsp;1838){{·}} '''[[Lise Tréhot]]''' (d.&nbsp;1922){{·}} '''[[Jessica Hardy]]''' (b.&nbsp;1987){{·}} '''[[Lazare Ponticelli]]''' (d.&nbsp;2008){{·}} 

==Notes==
* [[1997 military memorandum]] appears on [[WP:Selected anniversaries/February 28|February 28]], so 1971 Turkish coup d'état should not appear in the same year
* [[Great Sheffield Flood]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 11|March 11]], so St Francis Dam should not appear in the same year
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'''[[March 12]]'''
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* [[1881]] – '''[[Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856)|Andrew Watson]]''' made his debut with the [[Scotland national football team]] and became the world's first black international [[Association football|footballer]].
* [[1913]] – The future capital of Australia was officially named '''[[Canberra]]''' during a ceremony officiated by [[Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman|Gertrude, Lady Denman]], the wife of [[Governor-General of Australia|Governor-General]] [[Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman|Lord Denman]].
* [[1930]] – [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] ''(pictured with [[Sarojini Naidu]])'' began the '''[[Salt March]]''', a 24-day walk to defy the British tax on [[Sodium chloride|salt]] in [[colonial India]]. 
* [[1971]] – The [[Turkish Armed Forces]] executed a "'''[[1971 Turkish military memorandum|coup by memorandum]]'''", forcing the resignation of Prime Minister [[Süleyman Demirel]].
* [[1989]] – [[Tim Berners-Lee]] issued the first proposal for what would become the '''[[World Wide Web]]''', when he wrote a document to [[CERN]] with details of a "web"-based information-management system
* [[2014]] – A gas leak caused '''[[2014 East Harlem gas explosion|an explosion]]''' in the [[East Harlem]] neighborhood of New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
'''[[Symeon the New Theologian]]''' (d.&nbsp;1022){{·}} '''[[Lilian Faithfull]]''' (b.&nbsp;1865){{·}} '''[[Zhao Wei]]''' (b.&nbsp;1976)
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