What Day of the Week

March 12, 2022 was the 71^st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 294 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.

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

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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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• 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.
• 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.
• 1918

  Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
• 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.
• 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

  Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
• 2003

  Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
• 2004

  The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s history.

• 1478

  Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1516)
• 1718

  Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
• 1881

  Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
• 1912

  Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
• 1923

  Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater
• 1928

  Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
• 1945

  Sammy Gravano, American organized crime figure
• 1946

  Serge Turgeon, Canadian actor and union leader (d. 2004)
• 1963

  Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
• 1965

  Steve Levy, American sports journalist

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