About March 12
March 12, 2023 is the 71st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 335 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 12
- 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.
- 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
- 1928 –In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
- 1930 –Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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