WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025

1455-First record of Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before

1773-Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago

1790-French Revolution: The National Assembly issues a decree allowing for the sale of church land by French municipalities

1894-Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi

1918-Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia's capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow

1947-U.S. President Harry Truman introduces the Truman Doctrine to fight communism

1982-PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline" (ABC)

1993-317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay

2004-Roh Moo-hyun, president of South Korea, is impeached by its National Assembly for the first time in the nation's history.

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.