Coca Cola Started to Be Sold in Bottles for the First Time — Coca-Cola Begins to Be Sold in Bottles for the First Time

March 12 is the 71th day of the year (72st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of the year.

Railways

12 March 1911 Additional contract was signed with Germans on Baghdad Railways. The points of objection were taken into consideration. Baghdad-Basra bay line and port concession were abandoned.

Events

1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of the Kingdom of England.
1881 - Tunisia is occupied by France.
1894 - Coca-Cola is first sold in bottles.
1913 - The future capital of Australia officially becomes Canberra. Melbourne temporarily remained the capital until 1927.
1918 - Moscow became the capital of Russia. Saint Petersburg has retained its capital status for the past 215 years.
1921 - The London Conference ends. The Allies offered peace.
1921 – The National Anthem of the Turkish Nation was accepted in the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
1925 - Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen dies, replaced by General Chiang Kai-shek.
1928 – St. Francis Dam collapsed; 400 people died.
1930 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi embarked on the 300-mile "Salt Walk" (Salt Satyagraha) from Ahmetabat to the sea to oppose the Government monopoly of salt production.
1938 – German troops entered Austrian territory and formally annexed Austria the next day.
1947 – Harry Truman requests authorization from the US Congress to provide a total of $400 million in aid to Turkey and Greece for their relief from Soviet Union oppression and to provide training in the US for their civil and military personnel.
1958 – The 3rd Eurovision Song Contest was held. France took 1st place with André Claveau's song “Dors Mon Amour”. As in 1956, there were no English songs this year.
1967 – Suharto takes over the post of President of Indonesia from Sukarno.
1971 – Turkish Armed Forces gave the 12 March Memorandum. Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel resigned after this development. Memorandum; It was signed by Chief of General Staff Memduh Tağmaç, Land Forces Commander Faruk Gürler, Air Force Commander Muhsin Batur and Naval Forces Commander Celal Eyiceoğlu.
1979 – Pakistan announces leaving CENTO. One day later, with the departure of Iran, CENTO ceased to exist.
1985 – The “New Weapons Control Talks” on Strategic Nuclear Forces, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Space and Defense Systems began in Geneva between the Soviet Union and the USA.
1987 – The musical Les Misérables premiered on Broadway.
1989 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee presents his proposal for an information management system to CERN, which later evolved into the World Wide Web.
1993 – Mumbai attacks took place in Mumbai.
1999 – former members of the Warsaw Pact; The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO.
2000 – Pope II. John Paul sought forgiveness for the past sins of the Church against Jews, dissidents, women, and natives.
2003 - Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić was killed in Belgrade.
2004 – In Syria, the Qamishli Incidents broke out.
2011 – The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant explodes, resulting in radiation to the atmosphere the day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2020 – Education was suspended in Turkey by the Ministry of National Education due to the coronavirus.

Births

1613 – André Le Nôtre, landscape and garden architect to King Louis XIV (d. 1700)
1685 – George Berkeley, English philosopher (d. 1753)
1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)
1790 – John Frederic Daniell, English chemist and physicist (d. 1845)
1815 – Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (d. 1896)
1821 – John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
1835 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
1838 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (d. 1907)
1843 - Gabriel Tarde, French writer. sociologist, criminologist, and social psychologist (d. 1904)
1859 – Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (d. 1906)
1860 – Bernát Munkácsi, Hungarian Turcologist (d. 1937)
1863 – Vladimir Vernadski, Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist (d. 1945)
1869 George Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)
1877 – Wilhelm Frick, Nazi Germany's Minister of the Interior (d. 1946)
1878 – Musa Ćazim Ćatić, Bosnian poet (d. 1915)
1881 – Väinö Tanner, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1966)
1889 – Vaclav Nijinski, Polish ballet dancer (d. 1950)
1890 – Idris I, King of Libya (d. 1983)
1891 – Yevgeny Polivanov, Soviet linguist (d. 1938)
1905 Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (Seven Samurai) (d. 1982)
1910 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician (d. 1980)
1912 – Fethi Çelikbaş, Turkish politician (d. 2009)
1922 – Jack Kerouac, American author (d. 1969)
1927 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine lawyer and politician (d. 2009)
1928 – Edward Albee, American playwright (d. 2016)
1930 – Ann Emery, English actress (d. 2016)
1931 – Herb Kelleher, American entrepreneur, businessman, and manager (d. 2019)
1938 – Patricia Carli, Italian-French pop singer, composer, and songwriter
1943 – Ratko Mladic, Yugoslav soldier
1944 – Nursu Marmara, Turkish clinical psychologist
1946 – Liza Minnelli, American singer
1947 – Mitt Romney, American politician
1948 – James Taylor, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish football player and manager
1952 – Hulusi Akar, Turkish soldier, Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Turkey
1952 – Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese international football player
1953 Ron Jeremy, American pornographic film actor
1954 – Anish Kapoor, British-Indian sculptor
1956 – Steve Harris, English rock musician
1956 - Lesley Manville, English actress
1956 – Tim Verbeek, Dutch football player and manager (d. 2019)
1957 – Patrick Battiston, French former football player
1957 – Marlon Jackson, brother of Michael Jackson and member of The Jacksons 5, American singer
1958 – Dileita Mohamed Dileita, Djiboutian politician
1959 – Milorad Dodik, Serbian politician
1960 – Şenol Korkmaz, Turkish director and producer
1960 - Courtney B. Vance is an American actress
1962 – Julia Campbell is an American film and television actress.
1962 – Andreas Köpke, German football player
1962 – Lütfi Elvan, Turkish politician
1963 – Kemal Yeni, Turkish soldier, Commander of the Aegean Army
1963 – John Andretti, American speedway driver (d. 2020)
1963 – Ferdi Eğilmez, Turkish cinema director and producer
1965 – Liza Umarova, Chechen singer and actress
1967 – Uğur Çavuşoğlu, Turkish actor
1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor
1969 - Graham Coxon, English musician
1969 – Beyazıt Öztürk, Turkish comedian
1971 – Ogun Sanlisoy, Turkish musician
1972 – Lisa Werlinder, Swedish jazz musician and actress
1975 – Edgaras Jankauskas, Lithuanian national football player and manager
1975 – Srđan Pecelj, Bosnian national football player
1976 – Gökhan Üçoklar, Turkish basketball player
1976 – Zhao Wei is a Chinese TV and movie actor and pop music singer.
1977 – Amdy Faye is a Senegalese international football player.
1977 – Abdulhamit Gul, Turkish lawyer and politician
1978 – Arina Tanemura is a shōjo manga artist
1979 – Gerard López, Spanish former football player
1979 – Armand Deumi Tchani, Cameroonian football player
1981 Hideo Itami, Japanese professional wrestler
1982 – Hisato Sato, Japanese national football player
1983 – Atif Aslam, Pakistani pop and rock singer, guitarist and actor
1984 – Jaimie Alexander, American actress
1984 - Shreya Ghoshal is an Indian playback artist.
1985 – Edward Clancy, English professional track and road bike racer
1985 – Binnaz Uslu, Turkish athlete
1985 – Stromae, Belgian singer
1986 – František Rajtoral, Czech national football player (d. 2017)
1987 – Teymur Rajabov, Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
1988 – Sebastian Brendel, German canoeist
1988 – Kostas Mitroğlu is a football player of Aris and Greece
1988 - Titi is a Brazilian football player.
1989 – Jordan Adéoti, Benin national football player
1991 – Felix Kroos, German football player
1992 – Daniele Baselli, Italian football player
1992 – Jiří Skalák, Czech football player
1993 – Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian national football player
1994 – Christina Grimmie, American musician and songwriter (d. 2016)
1996 - Kerim Hafiz, Egyptian national football player
1994 - Katie Archibald is a Scottish and English racing cyclist.
1994 - Jerami Grant, American professional basketball player
1997 - Dean Henderson, English international football player
1997 – Allan Irénée Saint-Maximin, French football player

Deaths

417 – Innocent I was pope for the Catholic Church from 401 until his death in 417
604 – Gregory I, Pope (b. ca. 540)
1289 – II. Demetre, Georgian king (b. 1259)
1507 - Cesare Borgia, Rönesans Soldier and politician of Italy (b. 1475)
1832 – Frederich Kuhlau, German pianist (b. 1786)
1845 – Akif Pasha, Ottoman statesman, poet and writer (b. 1787)
1853 – Mathieu Orfila, Spanish-born French medical educator (b. 1787)
1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese statesman and military leader (b. 1811)
1898 – Zachris Topelius, Finnish writer (b. 1818)
1898 – Johann Jakob Balmer, Swiss mathematician and mathematical physicist (b. 1825)
1914 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
1925 – Arkady Timofeyevich Averchenko, Russian humorist (b. 1881)
1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary leader (b. 1866)
1929 – Asa Griggs Candler, developer of the American soft drink manufacturer (Coca-Cola) (b. 1851)
1942 – Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist (b. 1862)
1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1945 – Antonius Johannes Jurgens, German manufacturer (b. 1867)
1946 – Ferenc Szalasi, Founder and leader of the Hungarian fascist organization Arrow Cross Party (b. 1897)
1954 – Mustafa Sabri Efendi, Ottoman professor and Şeyhülislam (b. 1869)
1955 – Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
1956 – Bolesław Bierut, Polish statesman (b. 1892)
1957 – Josephine Hull, American stage and screen actress (b. 1877)
1971 – Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
1978 – John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
1990 – Philippe Soupault, French writer, poet, and novelist (b. 1897)
1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish/Swedish physiologist (b. 1900)
1997 – Galip Erdem, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1930)
1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist (b. 1916)
2001 – Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
2001 – Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist (b. 1913)
2002 – Spiros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter (b. 1923)
2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian Prime Minister (assassinated) (b. 1952)
2003 – Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
2005 – Kemal Türkoğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1911)
2006 – Jurij Brezan, German writer (b. 1916)
2007 – Önder Baysoy, Turkish businessman and politician (Karşıyaka Former President of Sports Club) (b. 1946)
2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
2013 – Clive Burr, English drummer (b. 1957)
2013 – Dinçer Çekmez, Turkish actor (b. 1940)
2014 – Věra Chytilová, Czech avant-garde film director (b. 1929)
2014 – Richard Coogan, American western actor (b. 1914)
2014 – René Llense, French former international football player (b. 1913)
2014 – Jean Vallée, Belgian singer (b. 1941)
2015 – Erol Büyükburç, Turkish pop music artist (b. 1936)
2015 – Michael Graves, American architect (b. 1934)
2015 – Terry Pratchett, British fantasy comedy writer (b. 1948)
2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist (b. 1923)
2017 – Anatoli Chernyayev, Russian historian, politician and writer (b. 1921)
2020 – Tonie Marshall, American-French actor, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1951)
2020 – Giovanni Battista Rabino, Italian politician (b. 1931)
2021 – Austen Angell, Australian chemist (b. 1933)
2021 – Fatima Aziz, Afghan female physicist and politician (b. 1973)
2021 – Irina Vasilevna Medvedeva, Soviet-Russian medical academic and scientist (b. 1958)
2022 – Traci Braxton, American singer, television star, and radio personality (b. 1971)
2022 – Vatsala Deshmukh, Indian actress (b. 1930)

Holidays and special occasions

Acceptance of the National Anthem and Mehmet Akif Ersoy Memorial Day
Storm of Hostility
Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Erzurum (1918)
Withdrawal of Georgian troops from Arhavi district of Artvin (1921)