Historical Events for 12th March 2024

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1857 - Desjardins Canal Train Disaster: Canadian Great Western passenger train crashes through rotting timber bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Ontario, killing 59 people
1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned 260th Supreme Pontiff in a ceremony at the Vatican
1940 - Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"
1954 - 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera "Moses und Aaron", in a concert setting in Hamburg, Germany
1989 - 10th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 88-79
1995 - Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
2005 - 26th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Syracuse beats West Virginia, 68-59
2006 - 47th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Florida beats South Carolina, 49-47
2013 - The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day
2018 - British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was "highly likely" to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4 with nerve agent

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