March 12

Media related to 12 March.

March 12 is the 71^st (72^nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of the year.

General

Main category: 12 March

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  1913 - Naming of city of Canberra on Capital Hill
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  1884 - Taking of Bac-Ninh, as seen by the French popular illustration
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  1947 - Special Message to Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine by Harry S. Truman

Births

Main category: March 12 births

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  1781 – Frederica of Baden

Deaths

Main category: March 12 deaths

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  2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer

Holidays and observances

Main category: March holidays and observances

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  1912 - Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia founds the Girl Guides, which later became the Girl Scouts of the USA
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  Deutsch: Der Heilige Gregor I., genannt der Große (* um 540 in Rom; † 12. März 604 in Rom) war von 590 bis 604 Papst der römisch-katholischen Kirche.

  English: Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great (called the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy) (c. 540 – March 12, 604) was pope of the Catholic Church from September 3, 590 until his death.

External links

• "On This Day". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved on 2015-06-22.