Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12
March 12: Independence Day in Mauritius (1968)
- 515 BCE - Construction of the Temple in Jerusalem was completed.
- 1928 - The failure of the St. Francis Dam in California resulted in a flood that killed 400 people.
- 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi begins the Dandi March, a 320 km walk to defy the British tax on salt.
- 1938 - Anschluss Österreichs: Austria was occupied by the Wehrmacht, and subsequently became Ostmark, a province within the German Reich.
- 1940 - The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
- 2003 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic (right) was assassinated in Belgrade.