WHAT HAPPENED ON 12. MARCH
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Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria. (12. March 1938)

Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated. (12. March 1940)

The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. (12. March 1947)

The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time. (12. March 1950)

First Winter Ascent of the Eiger north face. (12. March 1961)

Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become Acting President of Indonesia. (12. March 1967)

Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom. (12. March 1968)

The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns. (12. March 1971)

Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. (12. March 1992)

Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. (12. March 1993)

North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. (12. March 1993)

The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours. (12. March 1993)

Janet Reno was sworn in as the United States' first female attorney general. (12. March 1993)

The Church of England ordains its first female priests. (12. March 1994)

Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. (12. March 1999)

Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade. (12. March 2003)

The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history. (12. March 2004)

Karolos Papoulias becomes President of Greece. (12. March 2005)

Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history. (12. March 2009)

A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake. (12. March 2011)