Page 6: Historical Events In March - 12

1921  Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers).   

1924  Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies   

1925  British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement.   

1925  Death of Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary leader.   

1925  Gordon McRae, American actor is born   

1925  British govt of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement.   

1925  Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58   

1926  Denmark begins unilateral disarmament   

1928  In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people   

1930  Mahatma Gandhi began a march to the sea, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.   

1930  Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax.   

1932  The so-called "Swedish Match King", Ivar Kreuger, commits suicide in Paris, leaving behind a financial empire that turns out to be worthless.   

1932  Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide.   

1933  FDR announces the "New Deal.".   

1933  FDR conducts his inaugural "fireside chat".   

1933  FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"   

1934  Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail   

1934  Acting Pres Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia.   

1935  England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages.   

1937  Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist/composer, dies at 93.   

1938  Germans enter Vienna, and 183000 Jews in Austria fall under Nazi control. Within one month, 500 Jews commit suicide   

1938  Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)   

1939  Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies   

1940  Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus   

1940  Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus   

1941  German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands.   

1941  Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72   

1942  British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal   

1942  Brian O'Hara, Lead singer with the 'Fourmost' group is born   

1942  Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76.   

1943  Soviet troops liberate Wjasma.   

1945  Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy   

1945  New York is the inaugural to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment   

1945  The British Empire celebrates its inaugural British Empire Day   

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1270  Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325) was born on March - 12.   

1336  Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern was born on this day in history.   

1479  On March - 12 birth of giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence   

1515  Caspar Othmayr, composer was born on this day in history.   

1607  On this day in history birth of paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)   

1613  André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700) was born on March - 12.   

1620  On this day in history birth of johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)   

1626  John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697) was born on this day in history.   

0417  On March - 12 innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies   

0604  Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64 on March - 12.   

1209  Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies on this day in history.   

1289  Death of King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259) on March - 12.   

1374  On this day in history death of emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)   

1447  Death of Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377) on March - 12.   

1471  On this day in history dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist, dies   

1496  Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies on this day in history.