On this day in History - Mar. 12

• 515 BC - Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.
• 0222 - Un grupo de soldados asesina al emperador Heliogábalo.
• 0417 - Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies.
• 0604 - Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604) dies at 64.
• 1365 - University of Vienna founded .
• 1386 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, was born Ashikaga shogun (d. 1428) .
• 1507 - Cardinal Cesare Borgia, dies, son of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1475) .
• 1535 - El capitán Francisco Pacheco funda la ciudad de Puerto Viejo, la primera que se erigió en la costa de Ecuador.
• 1551 - Cédula de Carlos I para la fundación de la Universidad de Lima.
• 1572 - Publicação de "Os Lusíadas" de Luís Vaz de Camões.
• 1607 - Paul Gerhardt,was born, hymnist, (d. 1676)
• 1609 - Las Bermudas son proclamadas colonia inglesa.
• 1613 - Nasceu o jardineiro francês André Le Nôtre, pioneiro da arquitectura paisagista .
• 1613 - Anne Hyde, was born, first wife of King James II of England .
• 1622 - Gregorio XV canonized Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits;
• 1626 - John Aubrey, was born, antiquary and writer (d. 1697) .
• 1648 - Tirso de Molina muere, Dramaturgo español .
• 1660 - Atentado frustrado contra el virrey de Nueva España, duque de Alburquerque, en la catedral de México.
• 1664 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
• 1685 - George Berkeley, was born, Irish theologist, (d. 1753) .
• 1710 - Nascimento de Thomas Arne, compositor, autor do hino Rule Britannia .
• 1718- Joseph Damer, was born, Dorset landowner and MP .
• 1737 - Los restos de Galileo son inhumados en la Iglesia de la Santa Cruz de Florencia junto a los grandes de Italia.
• 1806 - Jane Pierce, was born, First Lady of the United States, (d. 1863) .
• 1824 - Gustav Kirchhoff, was born, physicist, lends his name to Kirchhoff's Laws, (d. 1887)
• 1831 - Clement Studebaker, was born, automobile pioneer .
• 1841 - El Congreso de Paraguay nombra a Carlos Antonio López y Mariano Roque Alonso cónsules gobernadores.
• 1848 - Se proclama oficialmente la Segunda República Francesa.
• 1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, was born, Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil, war hero and politician (d. 1938) (The Intruder) .
• 1871 - Alemania: el astrónomo Karl Theodor Robert Luther descubre Amaltea (el quinto satélite de Júpiter).
• 1881 - Kemal Atatürk, was born, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic, (d. 1938) (This date is just found by astrology maps, not the exact date) .
• 1881 - A França ocupa Túnis, no Norte de África.
• 1886 - Comienza a publicarse en Madrid "El Socialista", semanario dedicado a la clase obrera .
• 1888 - Vaslav Nijinsky, was born, ballet dancer, (d. 1950) .
• 1889 - Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia dies.
• 1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
• 1890 - Nascimento de Vaslav Nijinski, bailarino russo .
• 1893 - Fundación del Conservatorio de Música de Buenos Aires, por iniciativa del pianista y compositor Emilio Durán.
• 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time .
• 1895 - William C. Lee, was born, Maj. General US Army (d. 1948) .
• 1896 - Sir John Abbott, was born, third Prime Minister of Canada, (d. 1893) .
• 1900 - Nace Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, militar y político colombiano.
• 1906 - Muere Manuel Quintana, presidente de la República Argentina.
• 1911 - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, was born, President of Mexico .
• 1912 - Irving Layton, was born, poet .
• 1912 - Nace Alberto Burri, pintor italiano, considerado el creador del expresionismo abstracto .
• 1912 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US.
• 1912 - O czar russo Nicolau II abdica, abrindo caminho para a Revolução Bolchevique .
• 1913 - Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.
• 1914 - Fallece el industrial e inventor George Westinghouse.
• 1917 - Izvestia, the official Soviet newspaper, founded .
• 1919 - Miguel Gila, nace, humorista español.
• 1921 - Gianni Agnelli, was born, manager of Fiat, (d. 2003) .
• 1921 - Gordon MacRae, was born, singer, actor, (d. 1986) died Jan 24, 1986actor: Oklahoma!, Carousel, The Desert Song; singer: I Still Get Jealous, It’s Magic, Hair of Gold Eyes of Blue, C’est Magnifique, The Secret [with Jo Stafford];
• 1922 - Jack Kerouac, was born, writer, (d. 1969) .
• 1923 - Wally Schirra, was born, astronaut .
• 1925 - Harry Harrison, was born, science fiction author.
• 1925 - Walter Simons substitui interinamente Hans Luther (também ele interino) na presidência da Alemanha
• 1925 - Sun Yat Sen, dies, Chinese revolutionary, politician (b. 1866) .
• 1928 - Edward Albee, was born, American dramatist. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: A Delicate Balance [1967], Seascape [1974], Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 1928 - In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.
• 1928 - Em Portugal, Chaves foi elevada à categoria de cidade .
• 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
• 1932 - Andrew Young, wwas born, civil rights activist, politician, ambassador to the United Nations .
• 1933 - Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats.
• 1935 - É criada no Brasil a Aliança Nacional Libertadora, ou ANL, ampla frente de esquerda que faria oposição ao governo Getúlio Vargas .
• 1935 - Michel Pupin, dies, telephone pioneer .
• 1937 - Charles-Marie Widor, dies, organist and composer (b. 1844) .
• 1938 - Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.
• 1940 - Winter War: Finland signs a harsh peace treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated.
• 1940 - Al Jarreau, was born, singer .
• 1942 - Brian O'Hara, was born, Lead singer with the 'Fourmost' group.
• 1943 - Gustav Vigeland, dies, Norwegian sculptor .
• 1944 - Werner Drechsler, dies, German POW .
• 1944 - Artur Gavazzi - dies, Croat geographer (b. 1861) .
• 1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (b. 1929) 1945Anne Frank, menina holandesa de religião judaica, morre de tifo no campo nazista de extermínio de Bergen-Belsen, sua adolescência e seu trágico destino ficaram mundialmente conhecidos graças a um diário pessoal encontrado no final da Segunda Grande Guerra Mundial. Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp .
• 1946 - Liza Minnelli, was born in Los Angeles, California. Singer and actress.
• 1947 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
• 1947 - Kalervo Palsa, was born, Finnish artist, (d. 1987).
• 1947 - Winston Churchill, dies, American novelist (b. 1871) .
• 1948 - William C. Lee, dies, an general (b. 1895) .
• 1948 - James Taylor, was born in Boston, musician .
• 1950 - Nace Javier Clemente, Entrenador del fútbol español.
• 1951 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time.
• 1953 - Carl Hiaasen, was born, author .
• 1953 - Ron Jeremy, was born, pornographic film actor .
• 1955 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, dies, US saxophonist (b. 1920) .
• 1957 - Steve Harris, was born, musician ("Iron Maiden") .
• 1957 - Nascimento de Nádia Lippi , atriz brasileira, em São Paulo-SP.
• 1958 - In Hilversum, Netherlands, André Claveau wins the third Eurovision Song Contest for France singing "Dors, mon amour" (Sleep, my love).
• 1959 - La Cámara de Representantes de EEUU aprueba el ingreso de las islas Hawai como Estado número 50 de la Unión
• 1962 ou 1968?- Darryl Strawberry, baseball player .
• 1963 - Joaquim (Carvalho) Cruz, was born, Brazilian runner 800 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1984).
• 1964 - 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Streisand win .
• 1965 - Steve Finley, was born, Major League Baseball All-Star .
• 1967 - Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
• 1967 - Nace Julio César Dely Valdés, futbolista panameño.
• 1968 - Mauritius achieves independence after 158 years of British rule .
• 1968 - Foi declarada a Independência das Ilhas Maurícias.
• 1969 - 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win.
• 1969 - Graham Coxon, was born, musician .
• 1971 - O primeiro-ministro da Síria, Hafez al-Assad é eleito presidente do país
• 1973 - Na Síria, uma nova e permanente constituição é aprovada por mais de 97% dos eleitores nacionais.
• 1973 - Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77 .
• 1974 - Carlos Andrés Pérez inaugura su mandato como presidente de la República de Venezuela.
• 1975 - Em Portugal, foi criado o Conselho da Revolução .
• 1976 - Nace María Adánez, Actriz española.
• 1977 - No Chile, Pinochet dissolveu todos os partidos políticos.
• 1979 - Pete Doherty, was born, singer/guitarist (The Libertines and Babyshambles) .
• 1983 - El diplomático brasileño Joao Clemente Baena Soares es elegido secretario general de la OEA.
• 1984 - Arnold Ridley, British dies, playwright and actor (b. 1896) .
• 1985 - Eugene Ormandy, dies, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899) .
• 1985 - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic club-record 60 points in a 126-116 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. Bird broke the record previously held by teammate Kevin McHale, who scored 56 points just nine days earlier.
• 1986 - La sonda Giotto encuentra al cometa Halley.
• 1986 - España: los españoles dicen SI a la OTAN en referéndum.
• 1987 - Les Misérables opens on Broadway.
• 1990 - No Brasil, o Presidente José Sarney, um pouco antes de deixar o poder, assina 45 concessões de emissoras de rádio.
• 1990 - Wallace Breem, dies, author.
• 1992 - La CE reconoce como república independiente a Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth.
• 1993 - Several bombs explode in Bombay, India killing about 300 (317 more precisely says another font) and injuring hundreds more.
• 1993 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
• 1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
• 1994 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
• 1995 - Entra el vigor la Ley para el Dialogo, La Conciliación y la Paz Digna en Chiapas, tras su reciente aprobación por el Congreso mexicano.
• 1995 - Juanin Clay, dies, actress .
• 1997 - Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
• 1998 - Beatrice Wood, dies, artist/ceramist (b. 1893) .
• 1999 - Sir Yehudi Menuhin, dies, violinist (b. 1916) .
• 1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
• 2000 - Em um gesto inédito, o Papa João Paulo II pede o perdão de Deus pelos pecados da Igreja Católica cometidos através dos anos contra judeus, mulheres e minorias.
• 2001 - Morton Downey, Jr., dies, television personality (b. 1933) .
• 2001 - Robert Ludlum, dies, author of spy novels (b. 1927) .
• 2001 - Ann Sothern, dies, actress .
• 2002 - In Texas, Andrea Yates is found guilty of drowning her five children on June 20, 2001. She is later sentenced to life in prison.
• 2003 - Zoran Djindjic, Prime Minister of Serbia, dies assassinated in Belgrade.
• 2003 - Ronnie Burk, dies, surrealist and AIDS activist .
• 2003 - Howard Fast, dies, author (b. 1914) .
• 2003 - Lynne Thigpen, dies, actress (b. 1948) .
• 2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
• No Brasil este dia é comemorado como sendo o Dia da Biblioteca (conheça o site do Conselho Regional de Biblioteconomia) e Dia Nacional da Bibliotecária (Dec. 84.631/90).