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

Births
1914
- Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon
1947 - Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts
1948 - Kent Conrad, U.S. Senator (North Dakota)
1948 - James Taylor, singer, songwriter, musician
1953 - Ron Jeremy, adult film star
1958 - Matt Millen, professional football player, announcer
1968 - Tammy Duckworth, military veteran, politician

Deaths
1974
- George D. Sax, businessman, entrepreneur
2001 - Morton Downey, Jr., television talk show host

Events
1894
- Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1912 - Girl Scouts of the USA is founded by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia.
1918 - Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg had held this status for the previous 215 years.
1928 - St. Francis Dam in California catastrophically fails resulting in a flood that kills over 600 people.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi begins the 200-mile Dandi March to the sea in protest of the British salt tax in colonial India.
1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives the first of his "fireside chats" urging the nation to have faith in U.S. banks.
1947 - The Truman Doctrine is established by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1951 - Dennis the Menace, a daily comic strip, debuts in 16 newspapers.
2002 - Tom Ridge unveils a new color-coded system for terror warnings in the United States.
2003 - Elizabeth Smart is found alive in Sandy, Utah after having been kidnapped for nine months.
2009 - It is announced that Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois will be renamed Willis Tower.
Calendar
January
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
February
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29
March
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
April
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
May
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
June
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
July
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
August
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
September
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
October
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
November
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
December
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
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