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Events on March 12

• 1894 The Coca-Cola Company of Asa Griggs Candler sells Coca-Cola in bottles for the first time.
• 1930 Mahatma Gandhi sets off with 78 of his followers on the so-called Salt March in order to break the British salt monopoly in an act of civil disobedience.
• 1930 The German Reichstag approves the Young Plan, under which Germany must make reparations payments to the victors of the First World War until 1988.
• 1938 Following the military directive issued by German Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler on the previous day, troops of the German Wehrmacht enter Austria and thereby carry out its annexation to the German Reich.
• 1947 During the Cold War, U.S. President Harry S. Truman sets forth the Truman Doctrine in a speech to Congress. Based on the two-bloc theory, the doctrine marks the beginning of U.S. containment policy for containing communism.
• 1986 In Hanover, the CEBIT is opened for the first time as a standalone trade fair.
• 1987 Following a lawsuit by the European Commission, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg declares invalid the German prohibition on the domestic sale as beer of foreign beers that are not brewed in accordance with the German purity law.
• 1989 Tim Berners-Lee presents the idea of the World Wide Web at CERN.
• 1999 The former Warsaw Pact states of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary join NATO in the first phase of NATO's eastward enlargement.
• 2001 The centuries-old Buddha statues of Bamiyan in Afghanistan are blown up by Taliban militants on Mohammed Omar's orders despite international protests, after gunfire had previously failed to fully achieve the deliberate destruction of the statues in the eyes of the religious warriors.
• 2003 Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is shot by snipers in an ambush in front of the government building in Belgrade.
• 2010 The 10th Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver are officially opened by the Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean. They will last until 21 March.

Born on March 12

• 1877 Wilhelm Frick, German jurist and politician, MdR, Minister of State and Reich Minister
• 1904 Bodo Uhse, German writer
• 1920 Teofila Reich-Ranicki, German-Polish artist; Holocaust survivor, wife of the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki
• 1921 Giovanni Agnelli, Italian industrialist
• 1940 Al Jarreau, American jazz, pop and R&B singer and songwriter
• 1940 M. A. Numminen, Finnish singer, composer and filmmaker
• 1962 Andreas Köpke, German footballer and manager
• 1981 Friedrich Mücke, German actor
• 1982 Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer and coach
• 1990 Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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