Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12
This is a list of selected March 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Franklin Roosevelt after one of his fireside chats
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Arbor Day in China and Taiwan; | refimprove |
| 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 |
| 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}} |
| 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
- 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ended his siege of Rome, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
- 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.
- 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 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcast the first of his "fireside chats" to address the nation directly.
- 1947 – Cold War: US President Harry S. Truman 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.
- 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.
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: World Day Against Cyber Censorship
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Union Army began the ill-fated Red River Campaign, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.
- 1881 – Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national football team and became the world's first black international football player.
- 1912 – Juliette Gordon Low (pictured) founded a youth organization for girls that grew into the Girl Scouts of the USA.
- 1934 – Supported by the Estonian Army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
- 1993 – A series of thirteen coordinated bomb explosions took place in Bombay, India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others.