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THIS DAY IN HISTORY Friday, 12 March 2010

	1622 Ignatius of Loyola was canonised (declared a saint).

	1642 Abel Tasman became the first European to set foot in New Zealand.

	1930 Mohandas Gandhi began the 300-km march to the beach in Dandi to protest against the British salt tax.

	1934 Josip Broz Tito was freed from jail in Yugoslavia.

	1951 Communist troops were driven out of Seoul.

	1968 Mauritius gained independence from Britain, since celebrated as its National Day.