Tuesday, March 12, 2013

This was 71st day of the year and 294 days remained in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 1 Nisan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 1st day of the 2nd month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

March 12 Birthdays

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1922–1969, American Writer.

George Berkeley
philosopher (1685)

Vaslav Nijinsky
ballet dancer and choreographer (1890)

Edward Albee
dramatist (1928)

Andrew Young
political leader (1932)

Liza Minnelli
actress (1946)

James Taylor
musician (1948)

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March 12 in History

1912

Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts.

1930

Mohandas Gandhi began his 200-mile march to protest the British salt tax.

1933

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the first of his nation-wide "fireside chats" on radio.

1938

"Anschluss" took place when Hitler incorporated his homeland of Austria into the Third Reich.

1947

President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to aid in the containment of Communism.

1993

Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female attorney general of the United States.

1994

The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.

2002

The color-coded terror alert system was unveiled by Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.

2003

The prime minister of the Serbian state (of Serbia and Montenegro), Zoran Djindjic, was assassinated.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.