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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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.
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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)
1664
New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
1689
The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
1912
The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1921
İstiklal Marşı was adopted in TBMM(Turkish grand national assembly).
1922
Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
1964
New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first U.S. state to legally sell lottery tickets in the 20th century.
1966
Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
1999
Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2004
The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s history.
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.
Who were born on March 12?
1912
Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
1923
Mae Young, American professional wrestler
1925
Georges Delerue, French film composer (d. 1992)
1933
Barbara Feldon, American actress and model
1949
David Mellor, British QC, politician and broadcaster
1957
Patrick Battiston, French footballer
1967
Julio Dely Valdes, Panamanian footballer
1978
Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1981
Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler
1987
Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
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