March 12: World Day Against Cyber Censorship
Juliette Gordon Low, by Edward Hughes
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Union Army began the ill-fated Red River Campaign, in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.
- 1881 – Andrew Watson made his debut with the Scotland national football team and became the world's first black international football player.
- 1912 – Juliette Gordon Low (pictured) founded a youth organization for girls that grew into the Girl Scouts of the USA.
- 1934 – Supported by the Estonian Army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
- 1993 – A series of thirteen coordinated bomb explosions took place in Bombay, India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others.
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