Today's Holidays in March 12

✡️ Religious Observances

• Islamic: Lailat-ul-Qadr major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2014 — A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others. ↗
• 2011 — A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after... ↗
• 2009 — Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history. ↗
• 2004 — The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation's history. ↗
• 2003 — Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1996 — Robert Bartczak, Polish footballer
• 1996 — Aristo Sham, Hong Kong pianist
• 1995 — Will Pearsall, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 — Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
• 1994 — Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2016)