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March 12

4 sourced moments from March 12 in history: Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles (1894); Why Britain let Gandhi finish the 1930 Salt March; The Truman Doctrine Was Announced (1947), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on March 12

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1989 Technology · The Internet

The World Wide Web was invented at a physics lab to help scientists share documents

The web began as a "vague, but exciting" memo at CERN — and the world's first website ran on a computer nobody was allowed to switch off.

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1947 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

The Truman Doctrine Was Announced

In a single speech to Congress, an American president redrew the map of the postwar world and lit the fuse of the Cold War.

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1930 History · Modern

Why Britain let Gandhi finish the 1930 Salt March

Gandhi set off for the sea with 78 marchers on 12 March 1930. British officials thought the protest would fizzle, and left him free for nearly two months.

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1894 Food & Drink · Beverages

Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles

A Vicksburg candy merchant poured fountain Coke into reusable glass bottles, inventing the model that carried the drink to the whole world.

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