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On this day - 12 March

Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.

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Gandhi begins Salt March

Daily Worker 12/03/1930

On March 12th 1930, Mahatma Gandhi set off leading a 24 day march in protest against the British salt monopoly. The march comprised 387 km / 240 miles distance across India. The march concluded on April 5th 1930.

The march was based upon satyagraha, Gandhi's principles of nonviolent protest.

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Serbian Prime Minister assassinated

Daily Mirror 12/03/2003
Zoran Đinđić was the sixth prime minister of Serbia. On March 12th 2003 he was assassinated while at the entrance to the headquarters of the Serbian government in Belgrade, Serbia. He was shot by a sniper and died almost instantly.

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