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.

## Events

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

## Births

* 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

## Daiths
* 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)

## Halidays
* **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