What Day of the Week

March 12, 2021 was the 71^st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 294 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi.

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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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• 1622

  Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
• 1868

  Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
• 1912

  The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
• 1918

  Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
• 1928

  In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
• 1934

  Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
• 1947

  The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
• 1999

  Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
• 2003

  Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
• 2011

  A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

• 1821

  Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Canadian statesman (d. 1893)
• 1863

  Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer (d. 1938)
• 1912

  Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
• 1926

  DeLois Barrett Campbell, American gospel singer (d. 2011)
• 1926

  George Ariyoshi, American politician
• 1936

  Patrick Procktor, English artist (d. 2003)
• 1948

  James Taylor, American musician
• 1957

  Marlon Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5)
• 1966

  John Thompson III, American basketball coach
• 1985

  Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer

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