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Birthday meme
All found in 30 seconds on Wikipedia. Amazing what happened on March 12th…
1881 - Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
Births
1922 - Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
1925 - Harry Harrison, American author
1953 - Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and author
Deaths
604 - Pope Gregory I
1999 - Sir Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
2001 - Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
1881 - Andrew Watson made his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
Births
1922 - Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
1925 - Harry Harrison, American author
1953 - Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and author
Deaths
604 - Pope Gregory I
1999 - Sir Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
2001 - Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)