Historical Events on March 12.

1. 1894, 12th March: Coca-Cola bottle sales began.

2. 1918, 12th March: The Russian capital moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

3. 1930, 12th March: Mahatma Gandhi embarked on a 200-mile Dandi March for the Salt Satyagraha.

4. 1968, 12th March: Mauritius became independent from England.

5. 1993, 12th March: A series of 12 bomb blasts in Mumbai killed more than 300 people and injured thousands.

6. 1999, 12th March: The Government of India decided that Mahatma Gandhi would be depicted on government currency notes.

7. 1999, 12th March: The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO.

8. 2003, 12th March: The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).    

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on March 12.

1. 1824: Gustav Kirchhoff, a German physicist.

2. 1833: Baburao Shedmake, an Indian pro-independence rebel and a Gond chieftain from Central India.

3. 1911: Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, the first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman, and Diu. 

4. 1913: Yashwantrao Chavan, an Indian politician. He served as the last Chief Minister of Bombay State and the first of Maharashtra.

5. 1964: Falguni Pathak, an Indian singer.

6. 1984: Shreya Ghoshal, an Indian playback singer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on March 12.

1. 1942: Robert Bosch, a German industrialist, engineer, and inventor.

2. 1960: Kshitimohan Sen, an Indian scholar.

3. 1999: Yehudi Menuhin, an American violinist.

4. 2001: Robert Ludlum, an American author.

5. 2013: Ganesh Pyne, an Indian painter, and draughtsman.

12-March-1612

Usman Khan Lohani, son of Isa Khan, was defeated in the battle of Nekujyal. He died as the last independent ruler of Bengal.

12-March-1911

Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born.

12-March-1913

Yashvantrao Balvantrao Chavan, first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.

12-March-1917

Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India.

12-March-1930

Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.

12-March-1938

Vijay Laxman Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17), was born in Amritsar.

12-March-1941

Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India.

12-March-1942

British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.

12-March-1944

No. 7 Squadron, which had flown its Vengeances on some missions against dissident tribesmen in North Waziristan, started operations in the Arakan from an airstrip at Uderbund near Kumbigram.

12-March-1954

Indian National Academy of Letters "Sahitya Academy" inaugurated by Dr. Radhakrishnan.

12-March-1967

Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister of India for the second time after winning the General Elections.

12-March-1969

Reactor Research Centre established at Kalpakkam. On 18th December 1985, it was renamed as Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research.

12-March-1972

Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats.

12-March-1988

After 58 years in the commemoration of Dandi March, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi performed the 32 kms Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram.

12-March-1988

Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away.

12-March-1991

Lok Sabha Speaker Rabi Ray admits to an Opposition-sponsored motion for removal of the Supreme Court Judge V. Ramaswamy for alleged misappropriation of public funds, and sets up a three-Judge committee to investigate.

12-March-1992

A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.

12-March-1992

Centenary celebrations held at Kasturba Hospital for Infections diseases. (CIVIC).

12-March-1992

India and the US decide to hold joint naval exercises in the Indian ocean.

12-March-1992

The four-member break-away group of Telugu Desam recognised by Lok Sabha speaker.

12-March-1993

Powerful bomb blasts at twelve various places in Mumbai takes 317 lives.

12-March-1995

Congress party loses India national election.

12-March-1996

Election Commission rejects claim by Indira Congress as the real Congress. The 'hand' symbol will remain with Indian National Congress headed by PVN Rao.

12-March-1996

Last session of the 10th Lok Sabha ends.

12-March-1997

Jaspal Rana equals world mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi.