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, 1,741,737,600 seconds 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

• 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.
• 1881 –
  Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
• 1922 –
  Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
• 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.
• 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.
• 2004 –
  The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s history.
• 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?

• 1270 –
  Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)
• 1863 –
  Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer (d. 1938)
• 1890 –
  William Dudley Pelley, American spiritualist and politician (d. 1965)
• 1915 –
  Willibald C. Bianchi, American Army officer and Medal of Honor winner (d. 1945)
• 1949 –
  Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
• 1962 –
  Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player
• 1965 –
  Liza Umarova, Chechen torch singer
• 1970 –
  Ray Prewitt, American actor
• 1978 –
  Arina Tanemura, Japanese manga artist
• 1988 –
  Konstantinos Mitroglou, Greek footballer

Who died on March 12?

• 1447 –
  Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
• 1790 –
  Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1710)
• 1929 –
  Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1937 –
  Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
• 1937 –
  Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (b. 1858)
• 1945 –
  Friedrich Fromm, German Army Officer (b. 1861)
• 1978 –
  John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
• 1991 –
  Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
• 2001 –
  Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
• 2005 –
  Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)