What happened on 12 March?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee at CERN proposes the Web; transforms human communication.
2. 1947 Cold War Geopolitical, ideological and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.
3. 1938 Anschluss German annexation of Austria -- first major territorial expansion of the Reich.
4. 1930 Gandhi begins the Salt March Gandhi's nonviolent 240-mile march galvanises Indian civil disobedience.
5. 1947 Truman Doctrine US pledges to support free peoples resisting Communist subversion or aggression.
6. 1993 Mumbai serial bombings 1993 12 coordinated bombings across Mumbai kill ~257.
7. 1925 Death of Sun Yat-sen The founding father of the Chinese Republic dies, leaving a power vacuum filled by Chiang Kai-shek.
8. 1685 Born: George Berkeley Anglo-Irish empiricist philosopher; argued for immaterialism (esse est percipi); author of A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.
9. 1999 NATO eastern enlargement Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic join NATO ten years after 1989; the Baltic states and four more follow in 2004, redrawing Europe's security map.
10. 1863 Born: Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy's poet-warlord: decadent novelist, war hero and demagogue who seized Fiume in 1919 and ruled it as a proto-fascist theatre-state. Mussolini borrowed the balcony speeches, the
11. 1948 Costa Rican Civil War José Figueres leads a 44-day rebellion after the annulled 1948 election — some 2,000 dead, the bloodiest event in modern Costa Rican history — and wins power at the head of a refor