Quick glance of 12 March in the pages of History

March 12: Here are the major events that occurred on 12 March….

• 12 March, 1455: First record of Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before.
• 12 March, 1642: Abel Tasman, an Explorer and Seafarer is the 1st European to sight New Zealand, viewing the north-west coast of the South Island.
• 12 March, 1737: Galileo’s body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy.
• 12 March, 1894: Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Coca-Cola was initially only sold by the glass from soda fountains because of a belief in the health properties of carbonated water. The first person to bottle Coca-Cola was Joseph A. Biedenharn from his wholesale candy company in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1894. Biedenharn used a Hutchinson bottle with its patented stopper, very different from the later famous contour bottle, designed in 1915.
• 12 March, 1913: Birth anniversary of Yashwantrao balwantrao Chavan. He was the first chief minister of the newly formed state of Maharashtra when it was carved out from Bombay state. He had also taken an active part in Indian freedom struggle and was part of the union government as well after independence.
• 12 March, 1919: Playwright George Bernard Shaw’s “Augustus Does His Bit” premieres in NYC.
• 12 March, 1930: Mahatma Gandhi started the Dandi March on 12th of March 1930. There were 78 people who started the match with him and were supposed to work with him for 240 km from his Ashram in Sabarmati to the coastal village of Dandi. The mark was supposed to be an act of civil resistance where Mahatma Gandhi broke the British law by producing salt.
• 12 March, 1954: The Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Its office is located in Rabindra Bhavan near Mandi House in Delhi. The Sahitya Academy Award is one of the most prestigious awards in Indian literature along with the Gyanpeeth award.
• 12 March, 1988: Death anniversary of Bengali writer Samresh Basu who received the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award for his work Shamba. In fact he also received the Filmfare Award for Best story for his creation Namkeen.
• 12 March, 1993: The infamous Mumbai bomb blasts happened on this day. The 1993 Bombay bombings were a series of 13 bomb explosions that took place in Mumbai, India, then known as Bombay, on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in 317 fatalities and 1,400 injuries. Dawood Ibrahim along with his subordinates tiger and Yakub Memon were the master mind of these blasts.
• 12 March, 2018: Plane crash of Bangladeshi carrier at Kathmandu airport kills at least 49 after plane approaches runway from wrong end.
• 12 March, 2019: More than 3,000 ISIS fighters have surrendered amid battle for last ISIS stronghold in Baghouz, Syria, according to Syrian Democratic Forces officials.