What are the important events that happened on March 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 12: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 12 is the 71st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 27, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,741,737,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontahenagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 342 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,464 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 12 Historical Events
- 1664 –New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
- 1912 –The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
- 1921 –İstiklal Marşı was adopted in TBMM(Turkish grand national assembly).
- 1922 –Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- 1933 –Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats”.
- 1947 –The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- 1966 –Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
- 1993 –North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
- 1994 –The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- 2009 –Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
Who were born on March 12?
- 1685 –George Berkeley, Irish theologian (d. 1753)
- 1863 –Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer (d. 1938)
- 1923 –Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater
- 1926 –George Ariyoshi, American politician
- 1935 –John Doherty, English footballer (d. 2007)
- 1936 –Eddie Sutton, American college basketball coach
- 1946 –Peter Whalley, British television writer and author
- 1961 –Joseph Facal, Canadian politician
- 1969 –Jake Tapper, American journalist
- 1979 –Pete Doherty, English musician
Who died on March 12?
- 1628 –John Bull, English composer
- 1757 –Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696)
- 1909 –Joe Petrosino, American police lieutenant (b. 1860)
- 1916 –Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (b. 1830)
- 1937 –Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
- 1944 –Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
- 1989 –Maurice Evans, English-born actor (b. 1901)
- 1990 –Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
- 2003 –Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
- 2007 –Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (b. 1966)
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