12 Mairch

The 12t o Mairch is the 71st day o the year (72nt in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 294 days ti come.

• 1689 – The Williamite War stairts in Ireland.
• 1868 – Basutoland (nou Lesotho) is annexed bi the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1871 – Karl Theodor Robert Luther discovers Jupiter's muin Amalthea.
• 1878 – Walvis Bay in what is nou Namibie becomes a Breetish posession.
• 1881 – Andrew Watson becomes the first black fitbaw internaitional, for Scotland in a 6-1 away win ower Ingland in Lunnon.
• 1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled an sauld for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, bi local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
• 1913 – Australie's new caipital is named Canberra.
• 1918 – Moscow replaces Saunt Petersburg as caipital o Roushie.
• 1928 – The St. Francis Dam breaks in Californie, killin 600 fowk.
• 1930 – Indie Unthirldom Movement: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi leads a mairch against the Breetish saut monopoly.
• 1938 – Anschluss: Nazi Germany taks ower Austrick.
• 1960 – A fire at a chemical plant in Pusan, Sooth Korea, kills 60 fowk.
• 1968 – Mauritius achieves unthirldom.
• 1984 – In the Unitit Kinrick, the Naitional Union o Mineworkers stairts a year-lang strike.
• 1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic.
• 1993 – Bomb attacks in Bombay (Mumbai) kill 257 fowk.
• 1994 – The Kirk o Ingland ordains its first female priests.
• 1999 – Poland, the Czech Republic an Hungary jyn NATO.
• 2010 – The 2010 Winter Paralympic Gemmes in Vancouver stairt.
• 2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Pouer Plant melts an explodes an releases radioactivity intae the atmosphere a day efter Japan's yirdquauk.
• 2017 – A laundslide at a laundfill site in Addis Ababa, Ethiopie, kills 72 fowk.
• 2019 – Breetish Prime Meenister Theresa May loses a seicont Hoose o Commons vote on her Brexit deal.

• 1685 - George Berkeley, Erse philosopher (d. 1753)
• 1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German penter (d. 1779)
• 1821 - John Abbott, 3rd Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1892)
• 1824 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German pheesicist (d. 1887)
• 1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, jurnalist an writer (d. 1938)
• 1889 - Idris o Libie (d. 1983)
• 1889 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Roushie dancer an choreographer (d. 1950)
• 1922 - Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
• 1925 - Leo Esaki, Japanese pheesicist
• 1927 - Raul Alfonsin, Preses o Argentinae (d. 2009)
• 1928 - Edward Albee, American director an playwricht (d. 2016)
• 1940 - Al Jarreau, American sangster (d. 2017)
• 1946 - Liza Minnelli, American actress an sangster
• 1947 - Mitt Romney, American politeecian
• 1949 - Glenn Chandler, Scots fitbawer
• 1957 - Marlon Jackson, American sangster
• 1966 - Deborah Evelyn, Brazilian actress
• 1968 - Aaron Eckhart, American actor
• 1970 - Karen Bradley, Inglis politeecian
• 1976 - Zhao Wei, Cheenese actress
• 1979 - Pete Doherty, Inglis muisicker
• 1981 - Rory Lawson, Scots rugby union player
• 1987 - Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
• 1992 - Scott Robinson, Scots fitbawer
• 1994 - Katie Archibald, Scots racin cyclist
• 1994 - Christina Grimmie, American sangster (d. 2016)
• 1998 - Oli Shaw, Scots fitbawer

• 417 - Pape Innocent I
• 604 - Pape Gregory I (b. 540)
• 1507 - Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (b. 1475)
• 1820 - Alexander Mackenzie, Scots splorer o Canadae (b. 1764)
• 1914 - George Westinghouse, American inventor (b. 1846)
• 1925 - Sun Yat-sen, Preses o Republic o Cheenae (b. 1866)
• 1949 - Alex Raisbeck, Scots fitbawer (b. 1878)
• 1999 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist an conductor (b. 1916)
• 2010 - Hugh Robertson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1939)
• 2014 - Vera Chytilova, Czech filmmaker (b. 1929)
• 2015 - Terry Pratchett, Inglis writer (b. 1948)
• 2016 - Lloyd Shapley, American mathemateecian an economist (b. 1923)

• 12 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:

St. Fina

St. Seraphina

Sts. Theophanes

St. Alphege

St. Bernard o Carinola

St. Vindician

St. Egdunus

Bl. Joseph Tshang-ta-Pong

Bl. Luigi Orine, Blissed

St. Mamilian

St. Maximilian

St. Mura McFeredach

St. Paul Aurelian

St. Peter o Nicomedia

St. Peter the Deacon

• Naitional Day (Mauritius)
• Youth Day (Zambie)
• Arbor Day (Cheenae an Taiwan)
• Aztec New Year

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