{"id":19116,"date":"2020-03-12T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=19116"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:09:00","slug":"history-of-12-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-12-march\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 12 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 12 March<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; Mauritius became a republic but remained a member of the British Commonwealth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; In the\u00a0U.S., the Pentagon called for the closure of 31 major military bases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female U.S. attorney general.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell of the Loch Ness monster was confirmed to be a hoax. The photo was taken of a toy submarine with a head and neck attached.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; The Church of England ordained its first women priests.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Astronomers cancelled a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth saying that calculations had been off by 600,000 miles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic became members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). All three countries were members of the former Warsaw Pact.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; U.S. homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveiled a color-coded system for terror warnings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Conoco and Phillips Petroleum stockholders approved a proposed merger worth $15.6 billion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; In Utah, Elizabeth Smart was reunited with her family nine months after she was abducted from her home. She had been taken on June 5, 2002, by a drifter that had previously worked at the Smart home.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; The U.S. Air Force announced that it would resume reconnaissance flights off the coast of North Korea. The flights had stopped on March 2 after an encounter with four armed North Korean jets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong> &#8211; It was announced that the Sears Tower in Chicago, IL, would be renamed Willis Tower.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong> &#8211; In the U.S.,\u00a0Apple\u00a0began taking pre-orders for the\u00a0iPad.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A reactor at the\u00a0Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant\u00a0explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the\u00a02011 T\u014dhoku earthquake and tsunami.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0gas explosion\u00a0in the\u00a0New York City\u00a0neighborhood of\u00a0East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In the House of Commons, the revised\u00a0EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Martynas Andriu\u0161kevi\u010dius, Lithuanian basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ben Offereins, Australian runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Franti\u0161ek Rajtoral, Czech footballer (d. 2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jessica Hardy, American swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chris Seitz, American soccer player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pablo Vel\u00e1zquez, Paraguayan footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cristian Chagas Tarouco, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jordan Ad\u00e9oti, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Vytautas \u010cerniauskas, Lithuanian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tyler Clary, former American swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Richard Eckersley, English footballer<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/March_12#cite_note-238\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Siim Luts, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alexander Kr\u00f6ckel, German skeleton racer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Milena Rai\u010devi\u0107, Montenegrin handballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Felix Kroos, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Niclas Heimann, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jordan Ferri, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ji\u0159\u00ed Skal\u00e1k, Czech footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anton Shramchenko, Belarusian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist<sup>[<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jerami Grant, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sehrou Guirassy, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Robert Muri\u0107, Croatian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dean Henderson, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater<sup>[<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 12 March 1992 &#8211; Mauritius became a republic but remained a member of the British Commonwealth. 1993 &#8211; In the\u00a0U.S., the Pentagon called for the closure of 31 major military bases. 1993 &#8211; Janet Reno was sworn in as the first female U.S. attorney general. 1994 &#8211; A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell of 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