About March 12
March 12, 2024 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.
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Pisces is the sun 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.
What Happened On March 12
- 538 –Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
- 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.
- 1912 –The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
- 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.)
- 1922 –Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- 1934 –Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
- 1938 –Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria.
- 1940 –Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
- 1950 –The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world’s deadliest air disaster at the time.
- 1966 –Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
- 1968 –Mauritius achieves independence.
- 1992 –Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1994 –The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- 1999 –Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- 2003 –Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- 2004 –The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s history.
- 2009 –Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
- 2011 –A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.
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