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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_12" title="March 12">March 12</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1622" title="1622">1622</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola" title="Ignatius of Loyola">Ignatius of Loyola</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier" title="Francis Xavier">Francis Xavier</a></b>, founders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuits" title="Jesuits">Jesuits</a>, were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization" title="Canonization">canonized</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XV" title="Pope Gregory XV">Pope Gregory XV</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a> – At a ceremony at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Hill,_Australian_Capital_Territory" title="Capital Hill, Australian Capital Territory">Kurrajong Hill</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Denman,_Baroness_Denman" title="Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman">Lady Denman</a>, wife of Governor-General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Denman,_3rd_Baron_Denman" title="Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman">Lord Denman</a>, announced that <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra" title="Canberra">Canberra</a></b> would be the name of the future capital of Australia.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930" title="1930">1930</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a> began the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March" title="Salt March">Salt March</a></b>, a 24-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolence" title="Nonviolence">nonviolent</a> walk to defy the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_salt_tax_in_British_India" title="History of the salt tax in British India">British salt tax</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_India" title="Colonial India">colonial India</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934" title="1934">1934</a> – Supported by the Estonian army, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_P%C3%A4ts" title="Konstantin Päts">Konstantin Päts</a></b> staged a coup d'état, beginning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Silence" title="Era of Silence">Era of Silence</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a> – A gas leak caused <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_East_Harlem_gas_explosion" title="2014 East Harlem gas explosion">an explosion</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Harlem" title="East Harlem">East Harlem</a> neighborhood of New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Dragutin" title="Stefan Dragutin">Stefan Dragutin</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1316); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra" title="Wally Schirra">Wally Schirra</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1923); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Hardy" title="Jessica Hardy">Jessica Hardy</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1987)</p>
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