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

General [ edit ]

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  1913 - Naming of city of Canberra on Capital Hill
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  1884 - Taking of Bac-Ninh , as seen by the French popular illustration
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  1947 - Special Message to Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine by Harry S. Truman

Births [ edit ]

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  1781 ? Frederica of Baden

Deaths [ edit ]

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  2011 ? Nilla Pizzi , Italian singer

Holidays and observances [ edit ]

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  1912 - Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia founds the Girl Guides , which later became the Girl Scouts of the USA
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  Deutsch: Der Heilige Gregor I. , genannt der Große (* um 540 in Rom; † 12. Marz 604 in Rom) war von 590 bis 604 Papst der romisch-katholischen Kirche.

  English: Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great (called the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy) (c. 540 ? March 12, 604) was pope of the Catholic Church from September 3, 590 until his death.

External links [ edit ]

• " On This Day ". BBC News . BBC . Retrieved on 2015-06-22 .