Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12

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 * 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized by Pope Gregory XV.
 * 1913 – At a ceremony at Kurrajong Hill, Lady Denman, wife of Governor-General Lord Denman, announced that the future capital of Australia would be called Canberra.
 * 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi began the Salt March (pictured), a 24-day nonviolent walk to defy the British salt tax in colonial India.
 * 1933 – U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his fireside chats, addressing the nation directly via radio.
 * 1934 – Supported by the Estonian army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
 * 1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
 * 2014 – A gas leak caused an explosion in East Harlem, New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
 * Born/died this day: | Symeon the New Theologian |d|1022|Stefan Dragutin |d|1316|William Lyon Mackenzie |b|1795| Lilian Faithfull |b|1865| Lise Tréhot |d|1922|Jack Kerouac |b|1922| Wally Schirra |b|1923|  Jessica Hardy |b|1987| Lazare Ponticelli |d|2008