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 72nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 28, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,503,360 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 ‘heptacontadigon’ 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 323 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 4,099 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 12 Historical Events
- 1622 –Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
- 1881 –Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 1992 –Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1993 –Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
- 1994 –The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- 2004 –The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s history.
Who were born on March 12?
- 1835 –Simon Newcomb, Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
- 1889 –King Idris I of Libya (d. 1983)
- 1913 –Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician (d. 1984)
- 1921 –Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)
- 1923 –Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater
- 1965 –Shawn Gilbert, American baseball player
- 1965 –Steve Finley, American baseball player
- 1987 –Chris Seitz, American footballer
- 1987 –Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
- 1988 –Konstantinos Mitroglou, Greek footballer
Who died on March 12?
- 1507 –Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
- 1832 –Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
- 1898 –Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
- 1937 –Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
- 1945 –Friedrich Fromm, German Army Officer (b. 1861)
- 1985 –Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
- 1987 –Woody Hayes, American football coach (b. 1913)
- 1998 –Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
- 2005 –Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (b. 1932)
- 2011 –Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet; b. 1923)
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