On this day: March 12

POSTED: 3:53 PM Mar 06 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM Mar 11 2013

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Coca-Cola is bottled for the first time, Nazi troops march into Austria, "Dennis the Menace" debuts, and Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to running an $18 billion Ponzi scheme, all on this day.

OTD March 12 - Jane Pierce — 1 / 42

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1806: Jane Pierce, the first lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857 as the wife of President Franklin Pierce, is born Jane Means Appleton in Hampton, N.H.

OTD March 12 - Jane Pierce

OTD March 12 - Ulysses S Grant

OTD March 12 - Coca-Cola bottling

OTD March 12 - Girl Guides

OTD March 12 - George Westinghouse

OTD March 12 - Kremlin

OTD March 12 - Jack Kerouac

OTD March 12 - Edward Albee 1987

OTD March 12 - Salt March

OTD March 12 - fireside chat

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OTD March 12 - Liza Minnelli

OTD March 12 - Truman Doctrine

OTD March 12 - Mitt Romney

OTD March 12 - James Taylor

OTD March 12 - Llandow air disaster

OTD March 12 - Dennis the Menace

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OTD March 12 - Charlie Parker

OTD March 12 - Darryl Strawberry

OTD March 12 - Jimmy Hoffa

OTD March 12 - Velvet Underground

OTD March 12 - Aaron Eckhart

OTD March 12 - Paul and Linda McCartney

OTD March 12 - Dave Eggers

OTD March 12 - The Beatles

OTD March 12 - John Cazale

OTD March 12 - John Wayne Gacy

OTD March 12 - Les Miserables

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OTD March 12 - North Korea nuclear program

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OTD March 12 - Homeland Security color threats

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OTD March 12 - Eliot Spitzer

OTD March 12 - Bernie Madoff

OTD March 12 - Sears Tower

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