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This is a list of selected March 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) ... The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, ...
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..
March 12 marks Equal Pay Day in the United States, a symbolic date representing the number of days women have to work into the current year just to make the same amount of money men made in the ...
Women's History Month. World Music Therapy Day. Zero Discrimination Day. Baby Sleep Day. ... March 12. National Girl Scout Day. Daylight Saving Time Starts. National Plant a Flower Day.
March 31: Easter (Western Christianity, 2024); Cesar Chavez Day in various U.S. states ; International Transgender Day of Visibility Woodcut picture of Matthew C. Perry 1854 – U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Japanese depiction pictured) and the Tokugawa shogunate signed the Convention of Kanagawa , forcing the opening of Japanese ports ...
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The Great Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great Blizzard of '88 or the Great White Hurricane (March 11–14, 1888), was one of the most severe recorded blizzards in American history. The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as the Atlantic provinces of Canada. [ 3 ]