Editing 1912 (section)

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1912}}
[[File:Nlc amundsen.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[March 7]]: [[Roald Amundsen|Amundsen]] and the [[South Pole]]]]
[[File:Washmem.jpg|thumb|120px|right| [[March 27]]: [[Sakura|Cherry trees]] for Washington, D.C.]]
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Albert Berry (parachutist)|Albert Berry]] is reported to have made the first [[parachute]] jump from a flying [[airplane]].
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Italy|Italian]] forces become the first to use [[airship]]s in war as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at [[Janzur]], from an altitude of 6,000 feet.<ref>"Dirigibles in Tripoli War", ''The New York Times'', March 8, 1912</ref>
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Roald Amundsen]], in [[Hobart, Tasmania]], announces his success in reaching the [[South Pole]] the previous December.
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** French aviator Henri Salmet makes the first nonstop flight from Paris to London, in three hours.<ref>Flight, 16 March 1912, p. 238 [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912%20-%200238.html London-Paris Record Flight]</ref> ##claim retracted see Flight, 23 March 1912, p. 264 [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1912/1912%20-%200264.html M. Salmet's London-Paris Flight] ##
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* [[March 12]] &ndash; The [[Girl Scouts of the USA]] is founded by [[Juliette Gordon Low]], in [[Savannah, Georgia]].
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Lawrence Oates]], dying member of [[Robert Falcon Scott|Scott]]'s [[Terra Nova Expedition|South Pole expedition]], leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
* [[March 22]] &ndash; The State of [[Bihar]] is formed out of the erstwhile State of [[Bengal]], in [[British India]].
* [[March 27]] &ndash; Mayor [[Yukio Ozaki]] of Tokyo gives 3,000 [[cherry tree]]s to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between Japan and the United States.
* [[March 29]] (probable date) &ndash; [[Robert Falcon Scott]] and the remaining members of his South Pole expedition die.
* [[March 30]] &ndash; The [[French Third Republic]] establishes the [[French protectorate in Morocco]] by the [[Treaty of Fes]] with Sultan [[Abd al-Hafid of Morocco]].