On This Day
12 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1930 Mahatma Gandhi commenced the Civil Disobedience Movement with his famous Dandi March of 300 km to protest the British salt tax.
- 1954 Sahitya Akademi was formally inaugurated at New Delhi by Dr S Radhakrishnan, Vice-President of India.
- 1993 Bombay bombings, a series of terrorist bombings at 12 various places, took place in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra. The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1810 Frederic Chopin, Polish French composer and pianist of the Romantic period who ranks as one of music's greatest tone poets by reason of his imagination and fastidious craftsmanship, was born.
- 1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low.
- 1951 Comic strip Dennis the Menace first appears in the British comic magazine The Beano.
- 1957 Random House and Houghton-Mifflin co-publish The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.
- 1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain.
- 1989 Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submits his first proposal for an "information management system" to his boss at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) who finds it "vague, but exciting". The proposal subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.
- 1999 Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain, died in Berlin, Germany. He is widely considered one of the great violinists of the 20th century.
- 2001 Robert Ludlum, American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series, died at Florida, United States. The number of copies of his books in print is estimated between 300 million and 500 million. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries.
- ⭐ Significance
- No Smoking Day is observed every year on the second Wednesday of March, to encourage people over the world to quit smoking. The main purpose of this day is to spread awareness about the harmful health effects of tobacco consumption through cigarette and other modes. Important message is to help smokers to get rid from the bad habit of smoking.
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