Memipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12

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 * 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi began the Salt March, a 24-day nonviolent walk to defy the British salt tax in colonial India.
 * 1934 – Supported by the Estonian Army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
 * 1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
 * 1947 – Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
 * 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee submitted a memorandum at CERN with details of an information-management system, the first proposal for what would become the World Wide Web.
 * 2014 – A gas leak caused an explosion in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
 * Born/died this day: | Symeon the New Theologian |d|1022| Charles Boycott |b|1832| William Henry Perkin |b|1838| Lilian Faithfull |b|1865| Gemma Galgani |b|1878| Lise Tréhot |d|1922| Jack Kerouac |b|1922| Zhao Wei |b|1976| Jessica Hardy |b|1987| Lazare Ponticelli |d|2008