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Events on the 12th of March in history

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12 Mar 0417 St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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12 Mar 0538 Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
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12 Mar 1000 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
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12 Mar 1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
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12 Mar 1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
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12 Mar 1350 Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
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12 Mar 1365 University of Vienna founded
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12 Mar 1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
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12 Mar 1550 Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
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12 Mar 1572 Lu
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12 Mar 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
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12 Mar 1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
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12 Mar 1597 England routes troops to Amiens
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12 Mar 1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
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12 Mar 1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
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12 Mar 1622 Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
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12 Mar 1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
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12 Mar 1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
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12 Mar 1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
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12 Mar 1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
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12 Mar 1689 The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
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12 Mar 1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
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12 Mar 1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
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12 Mar 1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
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12 Mar 1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
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12 Mar 1789 US Post Office established
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12 Mar 1799 Austria declares war on France
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12 Mar 1811 Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
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12 Mar 1848 2nd republic established in France
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12 Mar 1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
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12 Mar 1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
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12 Mar 1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" premieres in Venice
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12 Mar 1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill; free land in West for colonists
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12 Mar 1864 American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.
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12 Mar 1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
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12 Mar 1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
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12 Mar 1868 Basutoland, toaday called Lesotho is annexed by the United Kingdom.
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12 Mar 1868 Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
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12 Mar 1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
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12 Mar 1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
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12 Mar 1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
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12 Mar 1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
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12 Mar 1881 Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
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12 Mar 1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
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12 Mar 1885 Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
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12 Mar 1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in northeast US (400 die)
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12 Mar 1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
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12 Mar 1889 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, vs England, Port Elizabeth
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12 Mar 1894 Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
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12 Mar 1894 Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
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12 Mar 1896 1st movie in the Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
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12 Mar 1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal" premieres in Brussel
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12 Mar 1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
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12 Mar 1901 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st American League ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
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12 Mar 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of American League
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12 Mar 1904 1st main line electric train in the UK (Liverpool to Southport)
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12 Mar 1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
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12 Mar 1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
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12 Mar 1908 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
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12 Mar 1910 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
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12 Mar 1910 Greek cruiser Georgios Averof is launched at Livorno.
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12 Mar 1910 Stanley Cup: Montr
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12 Mar 1912 Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St, New York City
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12 Mar 1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
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12 Mar 1912 Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
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12 Mar 1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
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12 Mar 1913 Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
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12 Mar 1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capitol in Canberra laid
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12 Mar 1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
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12 Mar 1917 Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrive in St. Petersburg
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12 Mar 1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
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12 Mar 1918 Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
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12 Mar 1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
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12 Mar 1919 George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit" premieres in New York NY
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12 Mar 1920 The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
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12 Mar 1921 İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
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12 Mar 1922 Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
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12 Mar 1925 British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
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12 Mar 1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
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12 Mar 1926 Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
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12 Mar 1928 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
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12 Mar 1930 Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
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12 Mar 1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax
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12 Mar 1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0: 6.1)
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12 Mar 1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
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12 Mar 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".
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12 Mar 1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
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12 Mar 1934 Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
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12 Mar 1934 Acting President Constantine P
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12 Mar 1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
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12 Mar 1934 Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Berlin
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12 Mar 1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
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12 Mar 1938 Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
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12 Mar 1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
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12 Mar 1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
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12 Mar 1940 Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
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12 Mar 1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus
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12 Mar 1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in the Netherlands
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12 Mar 1942 Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an Allied surrender to the Japanese Empire.
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12 Mar 1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
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12 Mar 1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
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12 Mar 1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers
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12 Mar 1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
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12 Mar 1945 New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
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12 Mar 1945 The British Empire celebrates its 1st British Empire Day
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12 Mar 1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
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12 Mar 1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
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12 Mar 1947 "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
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12 Mar 1947 The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
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12 Mar 1947 Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
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12 Mar 1947 President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
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12 Mar 1948 -5
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12 Mar 1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
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12 Mar 1950 The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
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12 Mar 1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
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12 Mar 1951 Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
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12 Mar 1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
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12 Mar 1954 1st performance of Arnold Sch
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12 Mar 1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
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12 Mar 1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
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12 Mar 1957 German Democratic Republic accepts 22 Russian divisions
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12 Mar 1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
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12 Mar 1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
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12 Mar 1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
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12 Mar 1961 First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.
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12 Mar 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
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12 Mar 1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
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12 Mar 1963 Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance
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12 Mar 1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
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12 Mar 1964 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine and Roses, Striesand wins 2
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12 Mar 1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
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12 Mar 1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
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12 Mar 1964 S[amuel] N[athaniel] Behrman's "But for Whom Charlie" premieres in New York NY
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12 Mar 1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
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12 Mar 1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
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12 Mar 1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
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12 Mar 1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
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12 Mar 1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [San Francisco]
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12 Mar 1967 Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become Acting President of Indonesia.
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12 Mar 1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
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12 Mar 1967 Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority
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12 Mar 1968 Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
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12 Mar 1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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12 Mar 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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12 Mar 1969 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win
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12 Mar 1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
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12 Mar 1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
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12 Mar 1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
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12 Mar 1971 The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
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12 Mar 1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca P
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12 Mar 1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President
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12 Mar 1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
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12 Mar 1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
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12 Mar 1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
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12 Mar 1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Washington
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12 Mar 1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
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12 Mar 1976 South African troops leave Angola
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12 Mar 1977 Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
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12 Mar 1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
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12 Mar 1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
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12 Mar 1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
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12 Mar 1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
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12 Mar 1980 New York Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguins
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12 Mar 1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
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12 Mar 1981 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little" premieres in New York NY
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12 Mar 1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond VA
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12 Mar 1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
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12 Mar 1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs Leeward Islands
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12 Mar 1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4: 1: 9)
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12 Mar 1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
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12 Mar 1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
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12 Mar 1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
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12 Mar 1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
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12 Mar 1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley
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12 Mar 1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
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12 Mar 1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway / Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances
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12 Mar 1987 Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
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12 Mar 1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
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12 Mar 1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
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12 Mar 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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12 Mar 1987 World Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)
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12 Mar 1987 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR)
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12 Mar 1987 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
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12 Mar 1987 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
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12 Mar 1989 15th People's Choice Awards
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12 Mar 1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
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12 Mar 1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
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12 Mar 1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
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12 Mar 1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
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12 Mar 1992 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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12 Mar 1993 Janet Reno is sworn in as the United States' first female attorney general.
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12 Mar 1993 The Blizzard of 1993: Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
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12 Mar 1993 North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
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12 Mar 1993 Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
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12 Mar 1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
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12 Mar 1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
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12 Mar 1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
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12 Mar 1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2
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12 Mar 1994 The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
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12 Mar 1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
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12 Mar 1995 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS)
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12 Mar 1995 Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny
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12 Mar 1995 Congress party loses India national election
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12 Mar 1995 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
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12 Mar 1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs Australia at Port-of-Spain
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12 Mar 1995 Letitia Vriesde runs South America indoor record 800 meter (2: 0.35)
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12 Mar 1995 World Ice Dance Championship in Birmingham UK won by Oksana Gritshuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)
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12 Mar 1995 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny (Czechoslovakia)
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12 Mar 1995 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Chen Lu (China)
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12 Mar 1995 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Birmingham UK won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
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12 Mar 1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
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12 Mar 1998 "Sound of Music, " opens at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
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12 Mar 1998 "Sound of Music" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
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12 Mar 1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
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12 Mar 2003 Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
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12 Mar 2004 The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation's history.
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12 Mar 2005 Karolos Papoulias becomes President of Greece.
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12 Mar 2009 Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
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12 Mar 2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
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12 Mar 2014 An explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 and injures 70 others.
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