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
- 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.
- 1664 –New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
- 1689 –The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
- 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.)
- 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).
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 1999 –Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- 2009 –Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
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