Historical Events - March 12.

1894: Coca-Cola bottle sales began.

1918: The Russian capital moved from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

1930: Mahatma Gandhi embarked on a 200-mile Dandi March for the Salt Satyagraha.

1968: Mauritius became independent from England.

1993: A series of 12 bomb blasts in Mumbai killed more than 300 people and injured thousands

1999: The Government of India decided that Mahatma Gandhi would be depicted on government currency notes.

1999: The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO.

2003: The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).   

Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries– March 12

1824: Gustav Kirchhoff, a German physicist.

1833: Baburao Shedmake, an Indian pro-independence rebel and a Gond chieftain from Central India.

1911: Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, the first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman, and Diu.

1913: Yashwantrao Chavan, an Indian politician. He served as the last Chief Minister of Bombay State and the first of Maharashtra.

1964: Falguni Pathak, an Indian singer.

1984: Shreya Ghoshal, an Indian playback singer.

Death anniversaries of famous people in India and the world on March 12

1942: Robert Bosch, a German industrialist, engineer, and inventor.

1960: Kshitimohan Sen, an Indian scholar.

1999: Yehudi Menuhin, an American violinist.

2001: Robert Ludlum, an American author.

2013: Ganesh Pyne, an Indian painter, and draughtsman.