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Today in History
March12
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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