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What happened on March 12th


 Birthdates Which Occur on March 12: 
1336 Eduard Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1479 Giuliano de' Medici monarch of Florence
1515 Caspar Othmayr composer
1685 George Berkeley Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1710 Thomas Augustine Arne English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1755 Georges Couthon French politician
1758 Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum Dutch general/politician [or March 22]
1768 Carolus Antonius Fodor composer
1788 Pierre J David [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1793 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert composer
1800 Louis-Prosper Gachard Belgian historian
1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce 1st lady (1853-57)
1808 Gerrit van der Linde Jz "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
1816 David Stuart Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1818 John Lorimar Worden Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
1821 John Abbott Qu‚bec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
 and Luitpold von Bayern Prince-regent of Bayern
1823 William Flank Perry Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1824 Gustav R Kirchoff Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1826 Robert Lowry composer
1827 John Robert Jones Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
 and William Richard Terry Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1830 William Felix Brantley Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1831 Clement Studebaker automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1832 Charles Boycott Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1835 Simon Newcomb US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1837 Alexandre Guilmant composer
1838 William Perkin inventor (1st artificial dye)
1848 Cyrill Kistler composer
1855 John White composer
1859 Josef Cyril Sychra composer
1860 Salvatore Di Giacomo composer
1862 Jane Delano US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1863 Adolf A Wolfschoon Cura‡ao, poet
 and Gabriele D'Annunzio Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
1874 Edmund Eysler Austrian composer
1875 Julio Garreta composer
1877 Wilhelm Frick German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1878 Gemma Galgani Italian saint
 and Joseph Gustav Mraczek composer
1880 House Peters England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1881 Daniel Webster Hoan Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
 and Kemal Atatrk 1st pres of Rep of Turkey
 and V„in” A Tanner premier of Finland (1926-27)
1883 Judge Jackson composer
1885 Rapha‰l HLAJM Verwilghen Flemish architect/urban developer
1888 Hall Johnson composer
1889 Philip Guedalla historian
1890 A Evert Taube Swedish writer/troubadour
 and Vaslav Nijinsky Ukrainian ballet dancer (Petrushka) [NS]
1891 Michael Polany Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1896 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller San Francisco Blues Great
1898 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa)
19-- Fallon [Robin Lee], XXX actress (Bare Essence, Con Job, Dreams)
 and Ron Jeremy XXX actor (Babe, Bad Girls, Caught From Behind)
1900 David Croll QC senator
 and Zoltan Vasarhelyi composer
1908 Inez Courtney NYC, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
1910 Roger L Stevens producer (Giant)
 and Tony "Two-Ton" Galento Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
 and Wilhelmus L Re˜ers sculptor
1911 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz president of Mexico
1912 James McKay lord provost of Edinburgh
 and Kylie Tennant novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
 and Paul Weston Springfield Mass, orch leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1914 Jan Kapr composer
1915 Alberto Burri Italian physician/sculptor/painter
1917 Googie Withers Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
 and Tom Normanton British MP
1918 James Bracken race horse trainer
1921 Giovanni Agnelli CEO (Fiat Automakers)
 and Gordon MacRae East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
 and Max de Metz Dutch publisher/translator
 and Ralph Shapey Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1922 Helen Parrish Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
 and Jack Kerouac Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues)
 and Lane Kirkland union president (AFL-CIO)
 and Thomas Hugh Eastwood composer
1923 Hjalmar Andersen Norway, speed skater 1500, 5K, 10K (Oly-gold-1952)
 and Norbert Brainin violinist
 and Walter M Schirra Jr Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7)
1925 Georges Delerue composer
 and Harry [Maxwell] Harrison UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy)
 and Leo Esaki [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
 and Louison Bobet French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55)
 and William G Whitehurst (Rep-R-Va)
1926 David Oliver Williams trade unionist (COHSE)
 and George R Ariyoshi (Gov-D-Hawaii)
 and Gudrun Ure actress^
 and Hildy Park Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
 and John C[lellon] Holmes US writer (Horn)
 and Rolv Berger Yttrehus composer
 and Ronald Alley art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1927 Mstislav Rostropovich Baku Russia, cellist/conductor [3/22 NS]
 and Raul Alfonsin president (Argentina)
1928 Edward Albee US playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
 and Phil Jones principal (Trinity College of Music)
 and Roland Moyle British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1929 Bernard Costello US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
1930 Antony Acland provost of Eton/British ambassador to US
 and Scoey Mitchill Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
 and Stanko Horvat composer
1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue director (Royal Collection)
1932 Andrew Young US Ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1934 Rudolph Agner CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
1935 Helga Pilarczyk German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
 and John Gross author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
1936 Anthony Loehnis vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
 and Lloyd Dobbins Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
 and Patrick Procktor painter
1937 Elizabeth Vaughan opera soprano
1938 Dimitri Terzakis composer
 and Karl Soderlund Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
 and Millie Perkins actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
 and Norman Hogg British MP
 and Tona Scherchen-Hsiao composer
1939 Barbara Feldon Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
 and David Mlinaric British interior director
1940 Al Jarreau Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1942 Bert Campaneris baseball player (Oakland A's)
 and Paul Kantner SF Calif, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
 and Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano mobster (testified against Gotti)
1945 Hans van Emden Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1946 Liza Minnelli LA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1947 Jill O'Hara Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
1948 Dana Walden rock keyboardist (Champaign)
 and James Taylor Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
 and Kent Conrad (Sen-D North Dakota)
 and Les Holroyd Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
 and Virginia Bottomley British minister of state health
1949 Bill Payne Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
 and David Mellor secretary of the British treasury
 and Mary Alice Williams news reporter (NBC-TV)
 and Mike Gibbons Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
 and Sara Lane NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
1950 Jon Provost actor (Timmy-Lassie)
 and Willie Duggan rugby football player
1951 Caren Kaye NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
 and Jack Green rocker
1953 Labamba [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1956 Dale Murphy Portland Ore, Atlanta Braves slugger (2 time NL MVP)
1957 Jerry Levine New Brunswick NJ, actor (Born on 4th of July)
 and Marlon D Jackson Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
 and Steve Harris London, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
1958 Debra Jensen Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
1960 Courtney B Vance Detroit MI, actor (Hamburger Hill)
1962 Darryl Strawberry Los Angeles, right fielder (NY Mets, LA Dodgers)
 and Gunde Svan Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)
1963 Candy Costie Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
 and Joaquim Carvalho Cruz Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
 and Julia Campbell Huntsville Ala, actress (Opportunity Knocks)
 and Paul Way British golfer
1964 Tony Terry rocker
1966 Erich Fischer Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
1973 Louis Laros soccer player (Willem II)
 Deaths Which Occured March 12: 
 417 Innocent I Italian Pope (401-417), dies
 604 Gregory I the Great Pope (590-604), dies
1209 Djamal al-din Aboe Mohammed Iljas Nizami Persian poet, dies
1471 Dionysius de Kartuizer/van Rijkel scholastic theologist, dies
1496 Johannes de Lapide [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies
1507 Cesare Borgia cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1570 Jacob van den Eynden land advocate of Holland, dies
1628 John Bull organist/composer, dies
1648 Tirso de Molina Spanish author, dies at about 63
1681 French van Mieris the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
1734 Antonius Schultingh [Schultingius], lawyer, dies
1753 George Berkeley English/Irish philosopher/bishop of Cloyne, dies
1824 Heinrich Carl Ebell composer, dies at 48
1831 Johann Franz Volkert composer, dies at 64
1832 Friedrich Kuhlau composer, dies at 45
1834 Karl W Feuerbach German mathematician (circle/posing F), dies at 33
1840 Friedrich Westenholz composer, dies at 61
1852 Juan Bros y Bertomel composer, dies at 75
1877 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura composer, dies at 52
1888 Henry Bergh founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
1889 Yohannes IV [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1902 John Peter Altgeld German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54
1905 Rudolf von Alt Austrian painter, dies at 92
1908 Edmondo de Amicis Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
1909 Johanna M "Lena" Bakker actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
1913 Joseph Bayer composer, dies at 61
1914 George Westinghouse US engineer (Westinghouse Electric Corp), dies
1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet inventor (rayon), dies
1925 Sun Yat-Sen Chinese revolutionary leader, dies
1932 Ivar Kreuger "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1937 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor composer, dies at 93
     Jeno Hubay composer, dies at 78
1941 Charles Sanford Skilton composer, dies at 72
1942 Enrique Morera composer, dies at 76
1946 Philip Merivale dies at 59
1949 Maria E "Beppie" Bakker actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
1950 L Heinrich Mann German/US writer (Zwischen the Racial), dies
1955 Charlie "Bird" Parker US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
1957 Josephine Hull actress (Harvey), dies at 71
1958 Ingeborg Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
1961 Belinda Lee actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1966 Estelita Rodriguez actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 35
1973 Esther Williamson Ballou composer, dies at 57
     Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch baseball player, dies at 74
     Manuel Rojas Sepulveda Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies
1974 Billy Fox Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated
1978 John Cazale actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41
     Tolchard Evans composer/conductor, dies
1982 Elisabeth Zernike writer (Barrel of Things), dies at 90
1983 Jevsei G Liberman Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
1984 Arnold Riley playwright/actor, dies at 88
1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau] Hungarians/Us conductor, dies at 85
1988 Billie Rhodes dies
     William Camp dies at 74
1989 Maurice Evans actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87
1991 Etienne Decroux French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
1992 Barbara Morrison actress (Project Moonbase), heart failure at 84
     Charles Poons of Paul Deen, dies^
     Hans G Kresse cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies
     Ida Oosterbaan founder (Women Action Committee), dies
     Karel Poons father of Paul Danish, dies
     Salvo Lima mayor (Palermo)/parliament leader (chr-dem), murdered
1993 Andreas J A I Bruggeman mayor (Ship bell), dies at 62
     Cheek Zhen marxist/vice-premier of China
     June Valli singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 64
     Michael Kanin screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
1994 Sandra Paretti German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
 Holidays Which Occur March 12: 
     British Commonwealth Commonwealth Day (formerly British Empire Day)
     Gabon Renovation Day (Gabonese Democratic Party established) (1968)
     Lesotho Moshoeshoe's Day
     Libya King's Birthday
     Mauritius Independence Day (1968)
     Venezuela Flag Day
     World Girl Scouts Day (1912)
     World World Culture Day (non Leap year)
 Religious Observances on March 12: 
     Christian Feast of St Bernard of Capua
     Christian Feast of St Paul Aurelian of Leon
     Christian Feast of St Alphege of Winchester
     Christian Feast of Ss Peters Gorgonius & Dorothheus
     RC Feast of St Maximilian of Theveste, martyr in Numidia, beheaded
     RC Feast of St Seraphina/Fina & St Theophanes the Chronicler
     RC Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
 604 RC, Luth, Ang Comm of St Gregory I the Great, pope (590-604)
 Things to Remember for March 12: 
     American Woman's History month
     Flowers-jonquil, violet & daffodil    Gems-bloodstone & aquamarine
     International Hamburger & Pickle Month-Red Cross Month
     Music in our Schools Month
 Highlights in History Which Occur March 12: 
 417 St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
 604 St Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1000 Odo van Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected as Pope Lucius II, as Callistus II
1350 Orvieto city government beheads Jewish-Christian relatives
1365 University of Vienna mental home opens
1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes publishes "Bullock Lus¡ados" in Portugal
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 England routes troops to Amiens
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
 and New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1789 US Post Office established
1799 Austria declares war on France
1848 2nd republic established in France
1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 British create Basutoland in Africa
 and Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
 and Great Britain annexes Basutoland
1871 R Luther discovers asteroid #113 Amalthea
1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
 and Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
 and Blizzard hits NY; about 800 die
1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #362 Havnia
1896 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1903 AL officially approves NY Highlanders (Yankees)
1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
 and Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 Mont Wanderers sweeps Win Maple Leafs for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1908)
1910 Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener) 7-3 for the Stanley Cup
1912 Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
 and Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
 and Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
 and George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC
1925 British govt of Baldwin ratifies Geneva agreement
1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
 and Pope Pius XI named archbishop of Mechelen
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
 and Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1931 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1308 Halleria
1932 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1221 Amor
1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
 and Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
 and Pres Constantine P„ts sees coup in Tallinn Estonia
1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1936 E Delporte discovers asteroid #2331 Parvulesco
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
 and G Kulin discovers asteroid #2738
1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
 and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #3446
1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
 and CPI calls on for armed uprising in Italy
 and NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
 and The British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
 and USSR gives Transylvania to Romania
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 Belgian govt of Huysmans resigns
 and Pres Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 -5øF lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 Belgium agrees (58%) for return of king Leopold III
 and Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 1st performance of Arnold Sch”nberg's "Moses und Aaron"
 and M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1970
1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins Second-Parliamentary election
 and House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay has secret talks with Indonesia
1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
 and Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance
1964 Grammy awards - Striesand wins 2 Grammies
 and Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
 and Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
 and SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC
 and WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
 and Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
 and Love's 1st album released "Love"
 and Pioneer Plaza dedicated [SF?]
 and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
 and Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
 and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
 and Grammy awards - Simon & Garfunkel win their 1st Grammys
 and Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca P‚rez Morena de Macias
 and Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
 and Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
1975 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2577 Litva
 and Vietcong conquer Ben me Thuot
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
 and H Kosai & K Hurukawa discovers asteroid #3319 Kibi
 and Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
 and T Urata discovers asteroid #2090 Mizuho
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
 and NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
 and Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
 and Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
     British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters
 and to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
 and Giotto encounters Comet Halley
 and Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
 and Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
 and USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
 and Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1993 317 killed by bomb attack in Bombay
 and Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
 and Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
 and Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2« week speech
1994 Church of England select 1st 33 women priests
1995 Congress party loses India national election
 and Letitia Vriesde runs S Amer indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1888  Blizzard paralyzes New York City. Over 200 die.
 Your Special Reminders for March 12: 
     1888    8øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
 and 1890   71øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
 and 71st day of the year with 294 days left    (Numerology = 6)