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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 falls on a Wednesday. It is day 71 of the year, ISO week 11, in Q1.
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Wednesday, March 12
March 12, 2025 is day 71 of 365, ISO week 11, in Q1. The moon is Waxing Gibbous and the zodiac sign is Pisces.
Day of year71
ISO week11
QuarterQ1
Days left294
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous
- Lunar age
- 12.7 days
- Illumination
- 95%
- Season
- Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, summer in the Southern Hemisphere
Zodiac and Holidays
- Zodiac
- Pisces
- Observances
- No major fixed observance in the built-in calendar
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- /date/2025-03-12
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March 12
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Arbor Day (China)
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Aztec New Year
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Angela Salawa
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Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua)
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Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia
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Mura (McFeredach)
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History for March 12
A gas leak caused an explosion in East Harlem, New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
U.S. Army soldiers gang-raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family members.
The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel (pictured).
General Suharto (pictured) seized power from President Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly sworn him in as acting president of Indonesia.
British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed the first secretary general of NATO.
Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Supported by the Estonian army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
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Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (born 1951)
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Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (born 1942)
2016
Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (born 1935)
2016
Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
2015
Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (born 1924)
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