What are the important events that happened on March 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 12: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 12 is the 71^st 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 27, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,028,960 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontahenagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,464 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 12 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1912 –
  The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
• 1934 –
  Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
• 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.
• 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 –
  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.
• 2004 –
  The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s history.
• 2009 –
  Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.

Who were born on March 12?

• 1672 –
  Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
• 1806 –
  Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
• 1864 –
  Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer and organist (d. 1943)
• 1925 –
  Harry Harrison, American author
• 1946 –
  Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
• 1949 –
  Rob Cohen, American film director, producer and writer
• 1963 –
  Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
• 1969 –
  Graham Coxon, English musician (Blur)
• 1974 –
  Steve Price, Australia rugby league player
• 1986 –
  Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)

Who died on March 12?

• 417 –
  Pope Innocent I
• 1930 –
  Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
• 1937 –
  Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
• 1942 –
  Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
• 1946 –
  Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian politician (executed) (b. 1897)
• 1947 –
  Winston Churchill, American novelist (b. 1871)
• 1991 –
  William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (b. 1900)
• 1998 –
  Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
• 1999 –
  Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
• 2008 –
  Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer and media host (b. 1949)