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This day in history: 12 March

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397 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 12 March.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2020: The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Holidays and observances

Arbor Day (China)

Arbor Day (Taiwan)

Christian feast day: Alphege

Christian feast day: Angela Salawa

Christian feast day: Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua)

Christian feast day: Fina

Christian feast day: Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia

Christian feast day: March 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Maximilian of Tebessa

Christian feast day: Mura (McFeredach)

Christian feast day: Paul Aurelian

Events

2020The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.

2018US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.

2014A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.

2011A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

2009Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.

2006In Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi is raped and murdered by five American soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, who also murder both of her parents and her sister.

2004President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly, the first such impeachment in the nation's history.

2003The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

2003Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.

1999Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

1993North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.

1993Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.

1992Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

1989Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.

1971The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.

1968Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1967Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.

1950The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.

1947Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.

1942The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.

1940The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.

1940Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.

1938Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria.

1933Great 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".

1930Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.

1928In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.

1920The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.

1918Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.

1913The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.

1912The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.

1862Paddle steamer Brother Jonathan docks in Fort Victoria (now Victoria, British Columbia), carrying smallpox-infected passengers from San Francisco. The ensuing epidemic killed an estimated two-thirds of First Nations in the province of Briti

1811Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.

1689James II of England lands at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.

1622Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

1579Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.

1391Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).

1158German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.

1088Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.

538Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.

Born on this day

2008Emma Kok, Dutch singer

2004DannyLux, American singer-songwriter

2003Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress and model

2003Malina Weissman, American actress and model

2001Kim Min-kyu, South Korean singer and actor

2001Max Duggan, American football player

1998Carsen Edwards, American basketball player

1998Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater

1998Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater

1998Mecole Hardman, American football player

1997Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer

1997Dean Henderson, English footballer

1997Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer

1996Cene Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper

1996Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer

1996Robert Murić, Croatian footballer

1996Serhou Guirassy, French-Guinean footballer

1994Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (died 2016)

1994Jerami Grant, American basketball player

1994Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist

1994Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor

1993Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer

1993Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer

1992Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner

1992Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer

1992Jiří Skalák, Czech footballer

1992Jordan Ferri, French footballer

1991Felix Kroos, German footballer

1991Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer

1990Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer

1990Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper

1990Dont'a Hightower, American football coach and former player

1990Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer

1990Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer

1990Marvin Jones, American football player

1990Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player

1990Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer

1990Milena Raičević, Montenegrin handballer

1989Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player

1989Dmitry Korobov, Belarusian ice hockey player

Died on this day

2022Gertraud Gruber, German beautician and businesswoman (born 1921)

2021Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (born 1951)

2016Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (born 1935)

2016Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)

2016Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (born 1942)

2015Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (born 1924)

2015Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (born 1934)

2015Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1948)

2015Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (born 1924)

2014José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (born 1936)

2014Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (born 1923)

2014Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)

2013Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1937)

2013Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (born 1936)

2012Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (born 1930)

2012Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (born 1938)

2012Michael Hossack, American drummer (born 1946)

2011Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (born 1919)

2010Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (born 1920)

2008Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (born 1949)

2008Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (born 1897)

2006Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (born 1947)

2004Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (born 1917)

2003Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1914)

2003Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (born 1948)

2003Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1952)

2002Hartini, former wife of Sukarno (born 1924)

2002Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1923)

2002Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (born 1932)

2001Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (born 1933)

Quote of the day

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

Marcus Aurelius

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