The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin. Date: March 12, 1920 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1920 📅 On This Day (Today)
In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people. Date: March 12, 1928 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1928 📅 On This Day (Today)
Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India. Date: March 12, 1930 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1930 📅 On This Day (Today)
Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats". Date: March 12, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria. Date: March 12, 1938 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1938 📅 On This Day (Today)
The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala. Date: March 12, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today)
Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Date: March 12, 1940 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1940 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies. Date: March 12, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1942 📅 On This Day (Today)
Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. Date: March 12, 1947 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1947 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster. Date: March 12, 1950 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 12 📅 Events on this day in 1950 📅 On This Day (Today)