^B{^#!16!12 March^N! Feast day of St Alphege, St Bernard of Winchester, St Gregory, St Maximilian of Theveste, St Mura, St Paul Aurelian, St Theophanes, and St Pionius.
^B{1609^B} Bermuda became a British colony. ^B{1881^B} France made Tunisia a protectorate. ^B{1904^B} Britain's first mainline electric train ran from Liverpool to Southport. ^B{1912^B} The Girl Guides movement (later called Scouts) was founded in the US. ^B{1930^B} Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi began his walk to the sea, known as the Salt March, in defiance of the British government's tax on salt and monopoly of the salt trade in India. ^B{1938^B} Germany annexed Austria. ^B{1940^B} The Russo-Finnish war ended with Finland signing over territory to the USSR.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}John Aubrey, English antiquary and author of ^I{Brief Lives^I}, ^B{1626^B}; Thomas Arne, English composer who wrote 'Rule Britannia', ^B{1710^B}; Kemal Ataturk, Turkish leader, ^B{1881^B}; Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer, ^B{1890^B}; Max Wall, English actor and comedian, ^B{1908^B}; Jack Kerouac, US 'Beat' novelist and poet, ^B{1922^B}; Liza Minelli, US film actress and singer, ^B{1946^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}St Gregory, pope, ^B{604^B}; Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal and politician, ^B{1507^B}; Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary leader, ^B{1925^B}; Anne Frank, Dutch Jewish diarist, died in a Nazi concentration camp, ^B{1945^B}; Charlie Parker, US jazz saxophonist, ^B{1955^B}; Eugene Ormandy, US conductor, ^B{1985^B}.
