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Saturday, 12 March 2016

Today In History [12th March, 2016]

A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.

Today in History
March12

1496
The Jews are expelled from Syria.
1507
Cesare Borgia dies while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain.
1609
The Bermuda Islands become an English colony.
1664
New Jersey becomes a British colony.
1789
The United States Post Office is established.
1809
Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country.
1863
President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address.
1879
The British Zulu War begins.
1884
Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
1894
Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1903
The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land.
1909
British Parliament increases naval appropriations for Great Britain.
1911
Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.
1912
Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.
1917
Russian troops mutiny as the “February Revolution” begins.
1930
Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolizes his defiance of British rule in India.
1933
President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
1933
President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats.
1938
German troops enter Austria without firing a shot, forming the anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany.
1939
Pius XII is elected the new pope in Rome.
1944
Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany.
1945
Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp.
1959
The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
1984
Lebanese President Gemayel opens the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war.
1985
The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.
1994
The Church of England ordains women priests.
Born on March 12
1554
Richard Hooker, English theologian (Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity).
1858
Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of The New York Times.
1862
Jane Delano, nurse, teacher, founder of the Red Cross.
1890
Vasav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer.
1922
Jack Kerouac, American novelist (On the Road).
1928
Edward Albee, American dramatist (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf).
1946
Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist (A Romantic Education, Virgin Time).

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