This Day In History

March 12
1918
Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
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.
1967
Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become Acting President of Indonesia.
1993
Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993
North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
2011
A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.