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.
- 1689 –The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
- 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.
- 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
- 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”.
- 1934 –Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
- 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.
- 1992 –Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 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.
- 1993 –Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
- 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.
- 2004 –The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s 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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