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March 12: Day of the Week
March 12, 2024 was the 72nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 294 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mardi.
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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
March 12 Historical Event(s)
1622
Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
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.
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.)
1930
Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1934
Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
1964
New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first U.S. state to legally sell lottery tickets in the 20th century.
2003
Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2009
Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
Who were born on March 12?
1835
Simon Newcomb, Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
1889
Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
1908
Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
1922
Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
1928
Edward Albee, American dramatist
1946
Frank Welker, American voice actor
1952
Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist
1963
Ian Holloway, English football manager
1974
Chris Parr, American basketball player
1994
Christina Grimmie, American singer, songwriter, pianist
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