This day in History - March 12

440 Historic Events for March 12
1915 Birth Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/abstract painter
1916 Event French airship sinks British submarine D3
1916 Death M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39
1917 Event Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Event Stalin, Kamenev and Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1917 Birth Tom Normanton, British MP
1917 Birth Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1918 Birth James Bracken, race horse trainer
1919 Event George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC
1919 Event Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1921 Birth Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
1921 Birth Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers)
1921 Birth Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator
1921 Birth Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1922 Birth Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues)
1922 Birth Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922 Birth Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
1922 Birth Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1923 Birth Norbert Brainin, violinist
1923 Birth Mstislav Rostropovich
1923 Birth Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, 1500, 5K, 10K speed skater (Oly-gold-1952)
1923 Birth Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7)
1924 Death Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
1925 Death Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58
1925 Birth Georges Delerue, composer