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12 Mar 1054
Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
12 Mar 1088
Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II succeeding Victor III
12 Mar 1144
Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II succeeding Callistus II
12 Mar 1350
Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
12 Mar 1572
Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes Os Lusados in Portugal
12 Mar 1594
Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
12 Mar 1619
Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
12 Mar 1755
1st steam engine in America installed to pump water from a mine
12 Mar 1773
Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
12 Mar 1790
French Revolution The National Assembly issues a decree allowing for the sale of church land by French municipalities
12 Mar 1794
Theatre Royal in Londons Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt
12 Mar 1832
The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opra de Paris.
12 Mar 1849
1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
12 Mar 1860
Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill free land in West for colonists
12 Mar 1862
24th Grand National Harry Lamplugh wins aboard The Huntsman first French trained winner only human fatality recorded in the event jockey Joe Wynne
12 Mar 1868
Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho)
12 Mar 1888
2nd day of the Great blizzard of 88 in north east US (400 die)
12 Mar 1889
Battle at Metema (Gallabad) Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV defeated
12 Mar 1889
Start of South Africas 1st Test v England Port Elizabeth
12 Mar 1894
Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
12 Mar 1897
Vincent dIndys opera Fervaal premieres in Brussells
12 Mar 1900
President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
12 Mar 1901
Ground is broken for Bostons 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
12 Mar 1903
NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
12 Mar 1904
1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
12 Mar 1905
The continuing strikes and disorders that unsettle Italy force out Premier Giovanni Giolitti though he will return in March 1906
12 Mar 1868
Henry OFarrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred Duke of Edinburgh.
12 Mar 1877
Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony Southern Africa.
12 Mar 1881
Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the worlds first black international football player and captain
12 Mar 1884
Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
12 Mar 1908
Stanley Cup Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
12 Mar 1908
The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
12 Mar 1909
Alarmed over increasing German naval strength Parliament passes a new naval appropriations bill
12 Mar 1910
Stanley Cup Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3
12 Mar 1912
Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
12 Mar 1913
Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
12 Mar 1916
French airship mistakenly attacks and sinks British submarine D3 with loss of all hands
12 Mar 1917
[OS Feb 27] Russian Duma sets up the Provisional Committee Soviets form Executive Committee
12 Mar 1917
Stalin Kamenev & Muranov arrive in Petrograd (St Petersburg)
12 Mar 1919
Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
12 Mar 1926
Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
12 Mar 1928
In California the St. Francis Dam fails killing over 600 people
12 Mar 1930
Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh] sets record for the 220-yard dash (026.1)
12 Mar 1934
Acting President Constantine Pts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
12 Mar 1934
Paul Hindemiths Mathis der Maler premieres in Berlin
12 Mar 1935
Britain establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
12 Mar 1940
Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory ending the Winter War
12 Mar 1941
German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
12 Mar 1942
British troops vacate the Andaman Islands in Gulf of Bengal
12 Mar 1945
Italys Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
12 Mar 1945
NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
12 Mar 1947
Chocolate Soldier opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
12 Mar 1948
-5F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
12 Mar 1950
Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
12 Mar 1950
Pope Pius XII encyclical On combating atheistic propaganda
12 Mar 1951
Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
12 Mar 1951
Comic strip Dennis the Menace 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano
12 Mar 1956
Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
12 Mar 1958
British Empire Day is renamed Commonwealth Day
12 Mar 1958
3rd Eurovision Song Contest Andre Claveau for France wins singing Dors mon amour in Hilversum
12 Mar 1959
Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
12 Mar 1959
US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
12 Mar 1962
Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
12 Mar 1964
S. N. Behrmans play But for Whom Charlie premieres in NYC
12 Mar 1964
WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
12 Mar 1965
Wooly Bully single released by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
12 Mar 1966
Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6032 wins)
12 Mar 1968
Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
12 Mar 1969
120 cannabis joints found at George & Patti Harrisons home
12 Mar 1971
Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
12 Mar 1971
The Allman Brothers Band record their live album Live at Fillmore East on this date and the following day
12 Mar 1971
Thousands of Belfast shipyard workers march demanding the introduction of Internment for members of the Irish Republican Army
12 Mar 1978
Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (114.99)
12 Mar 1980
NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie vs Pittsburgh Penguin
12 Mar 1981
Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
12 Mar 1981
Stephen Sondheims musical Marry Me a Little premieres in NYC
12 Mar 1981
Walter R T Witschey installs worlds largest sundial in Richmond Virginia
12 Mar 1982
1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh Jamaica v Leeward Islands
12 Mar 1982
PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on Nightline
12 Mar 1983
Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (45149)
12 Mar 1983
4th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament St. Johns beats Boston College 85-77
12 Mar 1984
Brtish National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes calls for national action
12 Mar 1986
210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
12 Mar 1986
Susan Butcher wins 1158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
12 Mar 1987
Les Miserables opens at BroadwayImperial NYC for 4000 performances
12 Mar 1987
Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
12 Mar 1987
Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (Soviet Union)
12 Mar 1987
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
12 Mar 1987
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern KazakhSemipalitinsk (Soviet Union)
12 Mar 1989
2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
12 Mar 1989
Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
12 Mar 1989
36th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 9 North Carolina beats 7 Duke 77-74
12 Mar 1989
30th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Alabama beats Florida 72-60
12 Mar 1989
10th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Georgetown beats Syracuse 88-79
12 Mar 1991
OPEC announces oil production cut to 22.3 Mbbld (3550000 m3d)
12 Mar 1992
Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations
12 Mar 1993
Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM101.7 is bought by Disney
12 Mar 1993
Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech
12 Mar 1994
Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
12 Mar 1995
Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
12 Mar 1995
Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
12 Mar 1995
Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
12 Mar 1995
Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (200.35)
12 Mar 1995
Mens Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (Canada)
12 Mar 1995
World Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (China)
12 Mar 1995
42nd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 7 Wake Forest beats 4 North Carolina 82-80 (OT)
12 Mar 1995
36th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Arkansas 95-93 (OT)
12 Mar 1995
16th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Villanova beats Connecticut 94-78
12 Mar 1996
Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
12 Mar 1998
Sound of Music opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
12 Mar 1999
Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic Hungary and Poland join NATO.
12 Mar 2000
47th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 3 Duke beats 20 Maryland 81-68
12 Mar 2000
41st SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Arkansas beats Auburn 75-67
12 Mar 2002
Animated film Ice Age directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha with voices by Denis Leary and John Leguizamo premieres
12 Mar 2002
US crime series The Shield starring Michael Chiklis premieres on FX
12 Mar 2003
Zoran ini Prime Minister of Serbia is assassinated in Belgrade.
12 Mar 2003
Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.
12 Mar 2004
Roh Moo-hyun President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nations history.
12 Mar 2005
Tung Chee Hwa the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
12 Mar 2005
26th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Syracuse beats West Virginia 68-59
12 Mar 2006
53rd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 1 Duke beats 7 Boston College 78-76
12 Mar 2006
47th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Florida beats South Carolina 49-47
12 Mar 2011
A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japans earthquake.
12 Mar 2011
32nd Big East Mens Basketball Tournament 9 Connecticut beats 3 Louisville 69-66
12 Mar 2012
100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
12 Mar 2012
45 people including children are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
12 Mar 2012
China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade
12 Mar 1572
Poet Lus Vaz de Cames publishes the epic poem Os Lusadas in Portugal
12 Mar 1908
Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Wanderers beat Winnipeg Maple Leafs 9-3 for 2-0 sweep of challenge series
12 Mar 1910
Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin Dutchmen (ON) 7-3
12 Mar 1917
In the wake of the February Revolution Communist Party members Joseph Stalin Lev Kamenev and Matvei Muranov arrive in Petrograd (St Petersburg) and seize control of the Pravda newspaper
12 Mar 1930
Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh] sets world record for the 220-yard dash (026.1)
12 Mar 1949
Ireland retains Five Nations Rugby Championship & Triple Crown with a 5-0 win over Wales at St. Helens Ground Swansea
12 Mar 1995
World Mens Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
12 Mar 1984
British National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes calls for national action
12 Mar 1994
The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests
12 Mar 1868
Henry OFarrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred Duke of Edinburgh in Sydney Australia Duke is shot but survives
12 Mar 1918
Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russias capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow
12 Mar 1945
NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment
12 Mar 1987
Ice Pairs World Championship at Cincinnati won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
12 Mar 1998
The Sound of Music opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
12 Mar 2008
Streaming service Hulu launches for public access in the United States
12 Mar 1903
New York Highlanders (Yankees) baseball franchise is approved as a member of the American League
12 Mar 1968
Indian Ocean island nation Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
12 Mar 2004
Music work I La Galigo by Richard Wilson debuts in Singapore based on Bugis creation myth from South Sulawesi (worlds most voluminous literary work)
12 Mar 1612
Bermuda officially becomes part of the Englisg Colony of Virginia
12 Mar 1857
Desjardins Canal Train Disaster Canadian Great Western passenger train crashes through rotting timber bridge over Desjardins Canal near Hamilton Ontario killing 59 people [1]
12 Mar 1948
-5F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio in month of March (record tied in 1984)
12 Mar 1984
British National Union of Mine Workers headed by Arthur Scargill supports regional strikes calls for national action strikes fail to achieve goals
12 Mar 1510
Governor Afonso dAlbuquerque establishes the first overseas Portuguese mint to issue gold coins in the Indian trading city of Goa [1]
12 Mar 1594
A Company of Far Lands established by Dutch merchants in Amsterdam to send ships to the East Indies beginning of the Dutch East Indies Company [1]
12 Mar 1956
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
12 Mar 1993
Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech to the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly [1]
12 Mar 1994
The Church of England ordains its first 32 female priests at the Bristol Cathedral in Bristol England [1]
12 Mar 2013
The Flick a play by Annie Baker opens off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in New York (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2014) [1]
12 Mar 2013
JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits
12 Mar 2013
The Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day
12 Mar 2014
8 people are killed 70 injured & 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem New York
12 Mar 2017
Irene Sankoff and David Heins musical drama Come From Away opens at Schoenfeld Theatre NYC
12 Mar 2018
Civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta passes 1000 in three weeks as Syrian government forces capture the town of Mesraba
12 Mar 2018
Plane crash of Bangladeshi carrier at Kathmandu airport kills at least 49 after plane approaches runway from wrong end
12 Mar 2018
Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32 percent on average in just four years
12 Mar 2018
Tens of thousands of farmers from Indian state Maharashtra end protests over loan waivers prices and land rights after promises from state officials and walking 167km to Mumbai
12 Mar 2019
K-pop and Big Bang singer Seungri is arrested for procuring prostitutes retires to fight the charges in South Korea
12 Mar 2019
More than 3000 ISIS fighters have surrendered amid battle for last ISIS stronghold in Baghouz Syria according to Syrian Democratic Forces officials
12 Mar 2019
Theresa Mays British government suffers a second defeat on a Brexit deal with the EU 391 votes to 242
12 Mar 1054
Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome
12 Mar 1088
Odo of Lagery is elected as Pope Urban II succeeding Victor III
12 Mar 1144
Gherardo Caccianemici is elected Pope Lucius II succeeding Celestine II
12 Mar 1350
Orvieto city in Italy announces it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples
12 Mar 1612
Bermuda officially becomes part of the English Colony of Virginia
12 Mar 1832
Romantic ballet La Sylphide by Filippo Taglioni premieres at the Opra de Paris
12 Mar 1942
WWII British troops vacate the Andaman Islands in Gulf of Bengal
12 Mar 1951
Comic strip Dennis the Menace first appears in the British comic magazine The Beano
12 Mar 1974
Ted Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears from Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington (body never found)
12 Mar 1993
French General Philippe Morillon declares Srebrenica is under the protection of the United Nations [1]
12 Mar 2002
US crime series The Shield created by Shawn Ryan and starring Michael Chiklis premieres on FX
12 Mar 2003
Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran ini is assassinated in Belgrade
12 Mar 2020
NHL pauses the 2019-20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic
12 Mar 2021
Researchers say world has likely reached peak twin with more twin births than ever before - 1.6 million twins born per year (1 in 42) [1]
12 Mar 2022
Saudi Arabia executes 81 convicted criminals the countrys largest known mass execution in modern times [1]
12 Mar 2023
Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for a second time in central Mozambique Madagascar and Malawi killing about 200 people and setting records as the longest-lasting cyclone in the southern hemisphere (formed Feb 6) [1]
12 Mar 2023
Oil company Saudi Aramco posts earnings of 161 billion for 2022 - highest-ever recorded annual profit by a publicly listed company [1]
12 Mar 2024
A Romanian court rules that Andrew Tate and his brother can be extradited to the UK only after the Romanian trial for human trafficking