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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 12
- 200th: 1824 - Birth of Gustav R Kirchoff in Prussia; physicist (spectral analysis).
- 100th: 1924 - Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies.
- 90th: 1934 - Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Rudolph Agner; CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Tony Terry; rock producer (Tony Terry).
- 60th: 1964 - Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam.
- 60th: 1964 - The first legal lottery in the USA in the twentieth century is the New Hampshire Sweepstakes. Draws are held twice per year, at a cost of $3 per ticket. The lottery commission pays US$500,000 to the IRS as a ten percent wagering excise tax.
- 50th: 1974 - Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, is assassinated.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Chris Carr; NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves).
- 50th: 1974 - Donna Manson disappears from Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington (Ted Bundy victim).
- 50th: 1974 - ABC-TV airs made-for-TV movie Wonder Woman starring Cathy Lee Crosby.
- 40th: 1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill and Dean, become first skaters to receive nine perfect 6.0 scores in world championships.
- 30th: 1994 - Church of England ordains its first 33 women priests.
- 30th: 1994 - Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at age 59.
- 30th: 1994 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
- 30th: 1994 - Birth of Tyler Patrick Jones; actor (Ghost Whisperer, Summerland).
- 25th: 1999 - Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic join NATO.
- 25th: 1999 - Birth of Kendall Applegate; actress (Desperate Housewives).
- 20th: 2004 - Following the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid, millions of protesters take to the streets of Spanish cities against terrorism.
- 15th: 2009 - Swiss drugmaking company Roche Holding announces it will acquire the remaining 44 percent of American biotechnology company Genentech stock for US$46.8 billion.
- 15th: 2009 - Bernard Madoff, former Nasdaq stock market chairman, pleads guilty to eleven charges of running a US$171 billion worldwide Ponzi scheme, the biggest investment fraud in Wall Street history.
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