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 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
- 1918 –Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
- 1922 –Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- 1938 –Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003 –Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- 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.
Who were born on March 12?
- 1637 –Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
- 1925 –Harry Harrison, American author
- 1925 –Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1932 –Andrew Young, American civil rights activist and politician
- 1957 –Patrick Battiston, French footballer
- 1961 –Joseph Facal, Canadian politician
- 1974 –Steve Price, Australia rugby league player
- 1976 –Panagiotis Bahramis, Greek footballer
- 1980 –John-Paul Lavoisier, American actor
- 1995 –Kanon Fukuda, Japanese singer
Who died on March 12?
- 1316 –King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
- 1507 –Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
- 1699 –Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
- 1898 –Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
- 1929 –Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
- 1937 –Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (b. 1858)
- 1973 –Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1975 –Olga Hepnarová, Czech mass murderer (b. 1951)
- 1998 –Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
- 2005 –Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (b. 1932)
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