Wednesday March 12, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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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.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

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.
The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
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.
Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats”.
Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
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.
New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first U.S. state to legally sell lottery tickets in the 20th century.
The Church of England ordains its first female priests.

Who were born on ?

Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Canadian statesman (d. 1893)
Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first President of Turkey (d. 1938)
Willibald C. Bianchi, American Army officer and Medal of Honor winner (d. 1945)
Millard Kaufman, American screenwriter (d. 2009)
Mike Stepovich, American attorney and last territorial governor of Alaska
Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi of Iran
Coleen Nolan, British singer
Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player

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