Following are some of the major events to have occurred on March 12:
\n1925 \u2013 Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died. Known as the father of modern China, he became its first provisional president from 1911-1912.
\n1938 \u2013 German troops invaded Austria.
\n1999 \u2013 Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic became the first former members of the Soviet bloc to join NATO.
\n1999 \u2013 Yehudi Menuhin, the American-born violinist and music teacher, died in Berlin.
\n2003 \u2013 Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was assassinated in front of the main government building in Belgrade.
\n2005 \u2013 Russian sportsman attempts record of staying in cold water for 60 minutes.
\n2005 \u2013 China accepted the resignation of Hong Kong\u2019s unpopular chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, after he was made a vice-chairman of an advisory body to parliament.
\n2009 \u2013 Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to largest fraud in Wall St. history.
\n2011 \u2013 Officials check radiation levels near Fukushima after an explosion and radiation leak at Tokyo Electric Power Company\u2019s nuclear power plant.
\n2012 \u2013 Researchers say they have found hidden Da Vinci masterpiece.
\n2014 \u2013 Fatal gas explosion in New York\u2019s Harlem neighbourhood.
\n(Reuters)Assassination. Chinese revolutionary leader, German troops invade Austria, NATO expansion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
– Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese revolutionary leader and first provisional president of modern China, died in 1925.
\n– German troops invaded Austria in 1938.
\n– Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999, becoming the first former Soviet bloc members to do so.
\n– American-born violinist and music teacher Yehudi Menuhin died in Berlin in 1999.
\n– Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was assassinated in 2003.
\n– In 2005, a Russian sportsman attempted to set a record by staying in cold water for 60 minutes.
\n– China accepted the resignation of Hong Kong’s chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, in 2005.
\n– Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to the largest fraud in Wall Street history in 2009.
\n– Radiation levels were checked near Fukushima after an explosion and radiation leak at a nuclear power plant in 2011.
\n– Researchers claimed to have found a hidden Da Vinci masterpiece in 2012.
\n– A fatal gas explosion occurred in New York’s Harlem neighborhood in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[325,486,1482,1241,3,917,1059,1483,415,658,185,699,292,1484,393,659,981,1004,255,962,18],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-check","tag-china","tag-chinese-revolutionary-leader","tag-cold","tag-cyprus","tag-explosion","tag-fraud","tag-german-troops-invade-austria","tag-government","tag-history","tag-main","tag-music","tag-nato","tag-nato-expansion","tag-new-york","tag-on-this-day","tag-poland","tag-power","tag-wall-street","tag-water","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n