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 72nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 28, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,503,360 minutes 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 ‘heptacontadigon’ 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 323 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 4,099 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 12 Historical Events
- 1622 –Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
- 1664 –New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
- 1689 –The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
- 1881 –Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
- 1913 –Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
- 1968 –Mauritius achieves independence.
- 1993 –The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
- 1994 –The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- 2003 –Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- 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?
- 1806 –Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
- 1880 –Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (d. 1958)
- 1908 –Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
- 1911 –Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican statesman (d. 1979)
- 1921 –Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
- 1965 –Steve Finley, American baseball player
- 1968 –Tammy Duckworth, American politician, military aviator
- 1974 –Steve Price, Australia rugby league player
- 1979 –Rhys Coiro, American actor
- 1981 –Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler
Who died on March 12?
- 604 –Pope Gregory I
- 1832 –Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
- 1872 –Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
- 1909 –Joe Petrosino, American police lieutenant (b. 1860)
- 1943 –Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
- 1946 –Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian politician (executed) (b. 1897)
- 1984 –Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
- 1998 –Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
- 2001 –Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
- 2005 –Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
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