Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12
March 12: Independence Day in Mauritius (1968); Arbor Day in China.
- 1881 – Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national football team and became the world's first black international football player.
- 1930 – Gandhi began the Dandi March (pictured), a 24-day walk to defy the British tax on salt in colonial India.
- 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.
- 1993 – A series of thirteen coordinated bomb explosions took place in Bombay, India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others.