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March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). There are 294 days remaining.
Events
515 BC - Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.
1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
1894 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US.
1913 - Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.
1928 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails killing 400.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march protest march to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1933 - Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats."
1938 - Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
1940 - Winter War: Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union, ceeding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and remaining population were immediately evacuated.
1947 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1951 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time.
1958 - In Hilversum, Netherlands, André Claveau wins the third Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, my love).
1968 - Mauritius achieves independence.
1987 - Les Misérables opens on Broadway.
1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth.
1993 - Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
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 nuclear sites.
1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
1994 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1997 - Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO.
2002 - In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
2003 - Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia, assassinated in Belgrade.
2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
Births
1386 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1428)
1607 - Paul Gerhardt, hymnist, (d. 1676)
1613 - Anne Hyde, first wife of King James II of England
1626 - John Aubrey, antiquary and writer (d. 1697)
1685 - George Berkeley, theologist, (d. 1753)
1718 - Joseph Damer, Dorset landowner and MP
1806 - Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States, (d. 1863)
1831 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
1824 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist, lends his name to Kirchhoff's Laws, (d. 1887)
1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil, war hero and politician (d. 1938)
1881 - Kemal Atatürk, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic, (d. 1938) (This date is just found by astrology maps, not the exact date)
1888 - Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer, (d. 1950)
1896 - Sir John Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada, (d. 1893)
1912 - Irving Layton, poet
1921 - Gianni Agnelli, manager of Fiat, (d. 2003)
1921 - Gordon MacRae, singer, actor, (d. 1986)
1922 - Jack Kerouac, writer, (d. 1969)
1923 - Wally Schirra, astronaut
1925 - Harry Harrison, science fiction author
1928 - Edward Albee, American dramatist
1932 - Andrew Young, civil rights activist, politician, ambassador to the United Nations
1940 - Al Jarreau, singer
1946 - Liza Minnelli, singer and actress
1947 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist, (d. 1987)
1948 - James Taylor, musician
1953 - Carl Hiaasen, author
1953 - Ron Jeremy, pornographic film actor
1957 - Steve Harris, musician ("Iron Maiden")
1962 - Darryl Strawberry, baseball player
1963 - Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
1965 - Steve Finley, Major League Baseball All-Star
1969 - Graham Coxon, musician
1980 - Terry McMahon, founder of the political action committee X-PAC
1993 - Samantha Minter
Deaths
604 - Pope Gregory I
1507 - Cardinal Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1475)
1889 - Emperor Johannes IV of Ethiopia
1925 - Sun Yat Sen, Chinese revolutionary, politician (b. 1866)
1935 - Michel Pupin, telephone pioneer
1937 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer (b. 1844)
1943 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor
1944 - Werner Drechsler, of U-118
1944 - Artur Gavazzi - Croat geographer (b. 1861)
1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (b. 1929)
1947 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (b. 1871)
1955 - Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
1984 - Arnold Ridley, British playwright and actor (b. 1896)
1985 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
1990 - Wallace Breem, author
1995 - Juanin Clay, actress
1998 - Beatrice Wood, artist/ceramist (b. 1893)
1999 - Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (b. 1916)
2001 - Morton Downey, Jr., television personality (b. 1933)
2001 - Robert Ludlum, author of spy novels (b. 1927)
2001 - Ann Sothern, actress
2003 - Ronnie Burk, surrealist and AIDS activist
2003 - Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
2003 - Howard Fast, author (b. 1914)
2003 - Lynne Thigpen, actress (b. 1948)
Holidays and observances
Ancient Latvia - Gregoru Diena observed
Feast day of St Theophanes
Mauritius - National Day
Sweden - Namesday of Crown Princess Victoria, an Official Flag Day
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