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.
- 1689 –The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
- 1868 –Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
- 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.)
- 1918 –Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
- 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.
- 1968 –Mauritius achieves independence.
- 1971 –The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
- 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.
- 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.
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