About March 12
March 12, 2025 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.
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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 342 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.
- 1868 –Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
- 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.)
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1947 –The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- 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.
- 1964 –New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first U.S. state to legally sell lottery tickets in the 20th century.
- 1966 –Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
- 1971 –The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
- 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.
- 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.
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