12 marzo

His first ashram, at Kochrab in 1915, nearly failed when he admitted an untouchable family and its donors walked away; 13,000 rupees left by a mill owner who would not give his name, later known to be Ambalal Sarabhai, saved it. On the banks of the Sabarmati it grew into a community of spinners…

The British taxed salt and forbade Indians to make their own. He set out from Sabarmati with seventy-eight marchers from the ashram and walked about 390 kilometres to the sea in twenty-four days, aged sixty. Village officials resigned along the route, and the world’s press followed. He vowed not…

Gandhi and 78 followers walked about 390 kilometres from Ahmedabad to the sea at Dandi, where he picked up a lump of natural salt in defiance of the salt tax. Some 60,000 people were jailed in the civil disobedience that followed.

Britain could no longer pay to prop up Greece and Turkey, so Truman asked Congress for $400 million and a principle: “it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”

He died watching television in the Stanhope Hotel suite of the jazz patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. The doctor estimated his age at 50 to 60; he was 34. Birdland, the club named after him, had banned him. Within days “Bird Lives” was chalked on walls around New York.

Tim Berners-Lee's “Information Management: A Proposal”, for linking CERN's documents across its many different computers with hypertext. His boss, Mike Sendall, wrote on the cover: Vague but exciting… — Mike Sendall

We don’t see any pressure on our liquidity, let alone a liquidity crisis. — Alan Schwartz, chief executive of Bear Stearns, on CNBC He was speaking from Palm Beach. Two days later Bear needed the Federal Reserve to open on Friday.

M. M. Keeravani and Chandrabose’s dance number from S. S. Rajamouli’s RRR, a Telugu-language epic, became the first song from an Indian film to win Best Original Song. India’s film industry had long since stopped being only Bombay’s.