12th MARCH ~ HISTORY ON THIS DAY

please enjoy your travel through time on the 12th day of March, with interesting events, births & deaths on this day in history

12th March History Timeline

1900s / the 20th century on the 12th of March

1912 : The Girl Guides were founded in the United States. They later were renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA. Official website : GirlScouts.org

1913 : The future capital of Australia was officially named Canberra.

Canberra Australia’ s Federal Capital : From the Film Australia Collection. Made by The Cinema & Photographic Branch 1934. A documentary made to promote Canberra A.C.T. It includes images of the opening of the first Australian Federal Parliament by the Duke and Duchess of York. From sheep paddock to a Federal Capital beautiful modern city that is also Australia’s centre of learning and culture.(NFSA Films video)

1918 : Moscow became the capital of Russia again. Saint Petersburg held was the capital for most of the prior 2 centuries, from 1713 to 1918.

1928 : The St. Francis Dam failed, and the flood that resulted killed 431 people.

1930 : Mahatma Gandhi began the Salt March, which was a 200-mile march to the sea to protest against the British monopoly on salt in India.

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first national radio address aka “fireside chat”, 8 days after his inauguration broadcast, directly from the White House. He began that first address with: “I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.” He then went on to explain his recent decision to close the nation’s banks in order to stop a surge in mass withdrawals by panicked investors worried about the possible bank failures. He said the banks would be reopening the next day, and thanked the public for their “fortitude and good temper” during the “banking holiday.”

1938 : The annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany aka Anschluss Österreichs, which united Austria and Germany to form a “Greater Germany”.

1950 : The Llandow air disaster near Sigingstone in Wales killed 80 people. It known was the world’s deadliest air disaster at that time.

1968 : Mauritius achieved independence from the United Kingdom.

1993 : North Korea announced it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.

2000s / the 21ts century on the 12th of March

2003 : A global warning of SARS* outbreaks was officially released by The World Health Organization (WHO). *Severe acute respiratory syndrome.

2011 : Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactor exploded and released radioactivity into the atmosphere, a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

2020 : The United States suspended travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today in History for March 12th by Associated Press

Video features : Hitler took Austria, FDR’s first fireside chat, Gacy convicted, Girl Scouts was founded, and Les Miserables opened…

Today in History for March 12th (Associated Press verified video)

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We hope you enjoyed your travel through time on the 12th day of March

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This page was last updated on the 19th March 2021

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