About March 12

March 12, 2025 is the 71st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 342 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 12

  • 1664 –
    New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 –
    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.
  • 2009 –
    Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.

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