1903<\/strong> – The Czar of Russia issued a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout his territory.<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong> – In Rome, Premier Giovanni Giolliwas forced out of office by continued civil strife.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations must yield incriminating evidence in anti-trust suits.<\/p>\n 1909<\/strong> – The British Parliament increased naval appropriations for Britain.<\/p>\n 1909<\/strong> – Three U.S. warships were ordered to Nicaragua to stem the conflict with El Salvador.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – Dr. Fletcher of Rockefeller Institute discovered the cause of infantile paralysis.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – The Girl Scout organization was founded. The original name was Girl Guides.<\/p>\n 1923<\/strong> – Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated photo film. It was his technique for putting sound on motion picture film.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – Gandhi began his 200-mile march to the sea that symbolized his defiance of British rule over India.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – President Paul von Hindenburg dropped the flag of the German Republic and ordered that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt presented his first presidential address to the nation. It was the first of the “Fireside Chats.”<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – Parimutuel betting became legal in the State of Nebraska.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – The “Anschluss” took place as German troops entered Austria.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – Finland surrendered to Russia ending the Russo-Finnish War.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – Britain barred all travel to Ireland.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – U.S. President Truman established the “Truman Doctrine” to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – The U.S. House joined the U.S. Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – Bobby Hull, of the Chicago Blackhawks, became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 51 points in a single season.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – “Wonder Woman” debuted on ABC-TV. The show later went to CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Lebanese President Gemayel opened the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine years of war.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. began arms control talks in Geneva.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Larry Bird (Boston Celtics) scored a club-record 60 points against the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced that he planned to drop Secret Service protection and hire his own bodyguards in an effort to lower the deficit by $3 million.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – “Les Miserables” opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Prime Minister Sadiq al Mahdi of Sudan formed a new cabinet to end the civil war.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – About 2,500 veterans and supporters marched at the Art Institute of Chicago to demand that officials remove an American flag placed on the floor as part of an exhibit.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Mauritius became a republic but remained a member of the British Commonwealth.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – In the U.S., the Pentagon called for the closure of 31 major military bases.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female U.S. attorney general.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell of the Loch Ness monster was confirmed to be a hoax. The photo was taken of a toy submarine with a head and neck attached.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The Church of England ordained its first women priests.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Astronomers canceled a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth saying that calculations had been off by 600,000 miles.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic became members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). All three countries were members of the former Warsaw Pact.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – U.S. homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveiled a color-coded system for terror warnings.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Conoco and Phillips Petroleum stockholders approved a proposed merger worth $15.6 billion.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – In Utah, Elizabeth Smart was reunited with her family nine months after she was abducted from her home. She had been taken on June 5, 2002, by a drifter that had previously worked at the Smart home.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – The U.S. Air Force announced that it would resume reconnaissance flights off the coast of North Korea. The flights had stopped on March 2 after an encounter with four armed North Korean jets.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – It was announced that the Sears Tower in Chicago, IL, would be renamed Willis Tower.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – In the U.S., Apple began taking pre-orders for the iPad.<\/p>\n 2011 <\/strong>\u2013 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.<\/p>\n 2014 <\/strong>\u2013 A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.<\/p>\n 2019 <\/strong>\u2013 In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.<\/sup><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of 12 March 1903 – The Czar of Russia issued a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout his territory. 1905 – In Rome, Premier Giovanni Giolliwas forced out of office by continued civil strife. 1906 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations must yield incriminating evidence in anti-trust suits. 1909 – The British […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[665,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-3914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-12-march","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-118","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23452,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions\/23452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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