What happend on 12th March

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1938

Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.

1933

Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."

1930

Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

1928

In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.

1913

Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.

1912

The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US.

1894

Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time

1803

Port Gibson, MS is chartered

1664

New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.