6 Strange But True World-Changing Facts That Happened on March 12

6 Strange But True World-Changing Facts That Happened on March 12

By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley real estate guide selling homes in San Jose

Are you an inquisitive person who enjoys learning? If you’ve read my blog, you know one of the pastimes I enjoy is discovering new facts and interesting pieces of history.

I like to share intriguing stories from our local newspaper the San Jose Mercury News, as well as my favorite print and online magazines Mental Floss, the National Geographic Society or  Smithsonian Magazine. Other times I find articles or facts online at The History Place, Brainy History,or Wikipedia.These events for today’s blog post are primarily from Dates In History.

While these interesting items are intriguing, they have nothing to do with my real estate business, helping people like you buy and sell homes in San Jose, Saratoga and Cupertino in Silicon Valley, Calif. I admit, they just add fun and enjoyment to life.

Here are today’s 6 Strange But True World-Changing Facts That Happened on March 12. I hope you find them interesting, too.

6 Strange but True Events That Occurred on March 12

1881 – Andrew Watson makes his debut in Scotland as the world's first black international football player and captain.

1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.

1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.

1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his famous "fireside chats" broadcast via radio throughout the country.

2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pled guilty in New York to scamming numerous investors of $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.

Thank you for reading. You may want to read my blog at www.activerain.com/results for more fun facts on history, real estate, home, life and other topics. I hope you learned something new from reading about these 6 Strange But True World-Changing Facts That Happened on March 12.