ওয়ার্ল্ডপিডিয়া:Selected anniversaries/March 12

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• Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu
  Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu
• St. Francis Dam
  St. Francis Dam
• Franklin Roosevelt after one of his fireside chats
  Franklin Roosevelt after one of his fireside chats
• Juliette Gordon Low, by Edward Hughes
  Juliette Gordon Low, by Edward Hughes

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.	refimprove section
1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized as saints by Pope Gregory XV.	Xavier: neutrality disputed
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
1938 – Austria was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and subsequently became Ostmark, a province within the German Reich.	refimprove sections
1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.	Tagged with {{refimprove}}
1993 – A series of thirteen coordinated bomb explosions took place in Bombay, India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others.	Not of sufficient quality
2003 – Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was assassinated in Belgrade.	refimprove section; assassination article has 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.	neutrality disputed

Eligible

• 1864 – American Civil War: The Union Army began the ill-fated Red River Campaign, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.
• 1921 – The Turkish Grand National Assembly adopted the İstiklâl Marşı as the national anthem, with lyrics written by poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy and music by Zeki Üngör.
• 1928 – The failure of the St. Francis Dam northwest of Los Angeles resulted in a flood that killed 400 people.
• 1930 – Gandhi began the Salt March, a 24-day walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India.
• 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.
• 1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel.
• 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.
• Born/died this day: Lise Tréhot (d. 1922)টেমপ্লেট:·

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: National Heroes and Benefactors Day in Belize (2018); Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2018)

Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman

• 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ended his siege of Rome, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
• 1881 – Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national football team and became the world's first black international footballer.
• 1913 – The future capital of Australia was officially named Canberra during a ceremony officiated by Gertrude, Lady Denman, the wife of Governor-General Lord Denman.
• 1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman (pictured) proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
• 1952 – British diplomat Hastings Ismay was appointed as the first Secretary General of NATO.

Charles Boycott (b. 1832)টেমপ্লেট:· Jessica Hardy (b. 1987)টেমপ্লেট:· Lazare Ponticelli (d. 2008)

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