About March 12
March 12, 2021 is the 71st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 326 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 12
- 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.
- 1811 –Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
- 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.
- 1922 –Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- 1928 –In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1947 –The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- 1964 –New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first U.S. state to legally sell lottery tickets in the 20th century.
- 1968 –Mauritius achieves independence.
- 1971 –The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
- 1992 –Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1993 –Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
- 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.
- 2009 –Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
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