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1930 India March Against Tax On Salt
12th March, 1930 : Mahatma Gandhi and his followers begin a 200 mile march to the salt beds of Jalalpur to campaign against British tax on salt beginning the fight for Indian independence from Great Britain. What must also be remembered is he was 61 years old at the time and marched over 200 miles in a peaceful march as a form of protest.
1990 - LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 - 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 - Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 - Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 - Congress party loses India national election
1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 - Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 - Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1996 - Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 - "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, was found after having been missing for 9 months.
2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2005 - Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2011 - A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
1991 - 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 - Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 - Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 - Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 - Congress party loses India national election
1995 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 - Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 - Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 - Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1996 - Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 - "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 - Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, was found after having been missing for 9 months.
2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2005 - Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2011 - A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
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