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 dies. Italian Pope (401-417).
• 0604 - Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604) dies at 64.
• 1270 - Charles of Valois was born (d. 1325). Son of Philip III of France
• 1365 - University of Vienna founded .
• 1386 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi was born (d. 1428). Ashikaga shogun.
• 1478 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici was born (d. 1516). Ruler of Florence.
• 1507 - Cesare Borgia dies (b. 1475). Cardinal, son of Pope Alexander VI.
• 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 (d. 1676). German hymnist.
• 1609 - Las Bermudas son proclamadas colonia inglesa.
• 1613 - André Le Nôtre was born in Paris (d. 1700). One of the greatest French landscape architects, whose masterpiece is the gardens of Versailles
• 1613 - Anne Hyde was born. First wife of King James II of England .
• 1620 - Johann Heinrich Hottinger was born (d. 1667). Swiss philologist and theologian.
• 1622 - Gregorio XV canonized Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits;
• 1626 - John Aubrey was born (d. 1697). English antiquary and writer.
• 1637 - Anne Hyde was born (d. 1671). Wife of James II of England.
• 1647 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie was born. French general.
• 1648 - Tirso de Molina dies. Spanish writer.
• 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 (d. 1753). Irish theologist.
• 1710 - Thomas Arne was born. Composer ( Rule Britannia).
• 1718 - Joseph Damer was born (d. 1798). English politician, 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.
• 1804 - Samuel Chase became the first (and, so far, only) U.S. Supreme Court justice to be impeached.
• 1806 - Jane Pierce was born (d. 1863). First Lady of the United States.
• 1824 - Gustav Kirchhoff was born (d. 1887). German physicist, lends his name to Kirchhoff's Laws
• 1831 - American manufacturer Clement Studebaker, founder of the Studebaker automobile company, was born in Pinetown, Pennsylvania.
• 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.
• 1849 - The Sikh army surrendered to the British at the end of the Second Sikh War, conceding to the annexation of the Punjab in northwestern India.
• 1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio was born (d. 1938). Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil, war hero and politician (The Intruder) .
• 1863 - Vladimir Vernadsky was born (d. 1945). Russian mineralogist.
• 1871 - Alemania: el astrónomo Karl Theodor Robert Luther descubre Amaltea (el quinto satélite de Júpiter).
• 1881 - Kemal Atatürk was born (d. 1938). Founder and first president of the Turkish Republic (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 .
• 1889 - Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia dies.
• 1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
• 1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky was born (d. 1950). Polish-born ballet dancer
• 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 (d. 1984). US Army General
• 1896 - Sir John Abbott was born (d. 1983). Third Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1900 - Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was born. Colombian militar and politician.
• 1906 - Manuel Quintana dies. President of Argentine.
• 1911 - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz was born. President of Mexico .
• 1912 - Irving Layton was born. Poet .
• 1912 - Alberto Burri was born. Italian painter.
• 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 - George Westinghouse dies. Inventor and industrialist.
• 1917 - Izvestia, the official Soviet newspaper, founded .
• 1919 - Miguel Gila was born. Spanish humorist
• 1921 - Gianni Agnelli was born (d. 2003). Manager of Fiat.
• 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 (d. 1969). Writer.
• 1923 - Wally Schirra was born. Astronaut .
• 1923 - Norbert Brainin was born (d. 2005), Austrian violinist
• 1925 - Harry Harrison, was born. American science fiction author.
• 1925 - Leo Esaki was born. Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 - Walter Simons substitui interinamente Hans Luther (também ele interino) na presidência da Alemanha
• 1925 - Sun Yat Sen dies (b. 1866). Chinese revolutionary, politician.
• 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 - Barbara Feldon was born. American actress.
• 1932 - Andrew Young was 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 (b. 1844). French organist and composer.
• 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. American 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 (b. 1861). Croat geographer.
• 1945 - Anne Frank dies in Bielsen Camp (b. 1929). Diarist (Diary of Anne Frank) / Anne 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.
• 1945 - Sammy "The Bull" Gravano was born. American gangster
• 1946 - Liza Minnelli was born in Los Angeles, California. American singer and actress.
• 1947 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. American President Harry S. Truman articulated what became known as the Truman Doctrine when he asked Congress to appropriate aid for Greece and Turkey, both of which were facing communist threats.
• 1947 - Kalervo Palsa was born (d. 1987). Finnish artist.
• 1947 - Winston Churchill dies (b. 1871). American novelist.
• 1948 - William C. Lee dies (b. 1895). American general.
• 1948 - James Taylor was born in Boston. American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
• 1950 - Javier Clemente was born. Spanish football coach.
• 1951 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the USA for the first time.
• 1953 - Carl Hiaasen was born. American journalist and author .
• 1953 - Ron Jeremy was born. Pornographic film actor.
• 1955 - Charlie "Bird" Parker dies (b. 1920). American saxophonist.
• 1957 - Steve Harris was born. Musician ("Iron Maiden") .
• 1957 - Nádia Lippi was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 1957 - Marlon Jackson was born. American singer (The Jackson 5)
• 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.
• 1960 - A fire at a chemical plant in Pusan, Korea kills 68.
• 1962 - Darryl Strawberry was born. American 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 - Julio César Dely Valdés was born. Panamanian footballer.
• 1968 - Mauritius achieves independence after 158 years of British rule.
• 1968 - Aaron Eckhart was born. American Actor (Erin Brockavich)
• 1969 - 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win.
• 1969 - Graham Coxon was born. English musician .
• 1970 - Roy Khan was born. Norwegian singer (Kamelot)
• 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 dies at 77. Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron).
• 1974 - Carlos Andrés Pérez inaugura su mandato como presidente de la República de Venezuela.
• 1975 - Em Portugal, foi criado o Conselho da Revolução .
• 1976 - María Adánez was born. Spanish actress.
• 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 dies (b. 1896). British playwright and actor.
• 1985 - Eugene Ormandy dies (b. 1899). Hungarian conductor
• 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. British author.
• 1992 - La CE reconoce como república independiente a Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth.
• 1992 - 13 are killed and several injured when a tram-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 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 - Portugal : Basquetebol - Benfica vence a Taça de Portugal pela 4ª. vez consecutiva.
• 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 (b. 1893). Artist/ceramist.
• 1999 - Sir Yehudi Menuhin dies (b. 1916). Violinist.
• 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 (b. 1933). Television personality.
• 2001 - Robert Ludlum dies (b. 1927). Author of spy novels.
• 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.
• 2002 - Spyros Kyprianou dies (b. 1932). Cypriot politician.
• 2003 - The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a worldwide health alert, one of the first in a decade, regarding an illness it later called severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that struck hundreds of people in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam.
• 2003 - Zoran Djindjic Prime Minister of Serbia, dies assassinated in Belgrade.
• 2003 - Ronnie Burk dies, surrealist and AIDS activist .
• 2003 - Howard Fast dies (b. 1914). American author.
• 2003 - Lynne Thigpen dies (b. 1948). American actress.
• 2004 - Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
• 2005 - Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
• 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).
• Roman Catholic Church - Feast day of St Theophanes.
• weden - Namesday of Crown Princess Victoria, an Official Flag Day.
• Flag Day in Venezuela