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March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) ... 2009 – Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
Events. 1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.; 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.; 1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the U.S..
March 12: Commonwealth Day in the Commonwealth of Nations (2012); Arbor Day in China and Taiwan 1870 – The Bulgarian Exarchate , the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the other Orthodox churches in the 1950s, was established by the firman of Sultan Abdülâziz of the Ottoman Empire .
March 12: Independence Day in Mauritius 538 – Vitiges , king of the Ostrogoths , ended his siege of Rome , leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius . 1864 – American Civil War : The Union Army began the ill-fated Red River Campaign , in which not a single objective was fully accomplished.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi (pictured with Sarojini Naidu) began the Salt March, a 24-day nonviolent walk to defy the British salt tax in colonial India. 1940 – The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
It is a small species, reaching about 30 centimetres (12 in) in length, with a weight of 66 to 150 grams (2.3 to 5.3 oz). It has reddish-brown fur on its upper body and five dark brown stripes contrasting with light brown stripes along its back, ending in a dark tail.
Generally brown or grey in colour, it is 47 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) in length with a 20.7 to 22.9 cm (8.1 to 9.0 in) tail and weighs 5.3 to 7.7 kg (12 to 17 lb). Due to its wide availability and biological similarity to humans, the rhesus macaque has been used extensively in medical and biological research.
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