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March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 294 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
Events. 1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain. 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. 1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the U.S.. 1928 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people. 1933 - Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for ...
Disasters A new section of high-speed railway that had undergone test runs collapses near Qianjiang, China. (New York Times) Over 45 people are trapped by avalanches in the remote Afghan villages of Poshan and Ghadoor in Nuristan province. (AP via Wall Street Journal) International relations United States Census Bureau has estimated the world population up to 7 billion people. (USCB ...
1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (pictured) in Boston, Massachusetts. Edit March 18 anniversaries • March 18 anniversaries on English Wikipedia
Great Sheffield Flood appears on March 11, so St Francis Dam should not appear in the same year. March 12. Andrew Watson. 1537 – Croatian–Ottoman wars: After the execution of feudal lord Petar Kružić, Croatian forces at Klis surrendered to the Ottoman forces in exchange for their safe passage to northern locations.
May. May 1: Empire State Building completed. May 1 – Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City. May 7 – "Siege of West 91st Street": 18-year-old serial murderer Francis "Two Gun" Crowley surrenders after a 2-hour gun battle with New York City Police Department witnessed by 15,000 bystanders.
March 5, 1932 (Saturday) Takuma Dan, the Director-General of Japan's the Mitsui Corporation, was shot to death as he was walking into the Mitsui Bank headquarters in Tokyo. Dan's killing was the second successful assassination by Japan's League of Blood after Junnosuke Inoue had been killed a month earlier.
2003 ( MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade. 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater [1] In 2003, a ...