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
- 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.
- 1622 –Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
- 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.
- 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
- 1928 –In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
- 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.
- 1964 –New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first U.S. state to legally sell lottery tickets in the 20th century.
- 1971 –The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
- 1992 –Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 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.
- 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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