Page 8: Historical Events In March - 12

1964  Malcolm X steps down from Nation of Islam   

1964  6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine and Roses, Streisand win   

1966  Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record.   

1966  Love's inaugural album released "Love".   

1966  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

1966  Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 37   

1967  Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet   

1967  Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority   

1968  Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day).   

1968  Mauritius, in the Indian ocean island, granted independence after 158 years of British rule   

1968  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.   

1969  11th Grammy Awards Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win   

1969  120 joints are discovered at George and Patti Harrison's home   

1969  Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London.   

1969  11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix win.   

1970  US lowers voting age from 21 to 18.   

1971  Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President   

1971  Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army.   

1972  In this year, Judy Rankin claims LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open.   

1972  NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons.   

1973  Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57   

1974  Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia WA   

1974  Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated.   

1975  Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam.   

1976  South African troops leave Angola   

1977  Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party   

1977  Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel   

1978  Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1 14.99)   

1978  In this year, Nancy Lopez claims LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic.   

1978  John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41.   

1978  Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99).   

1980  Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago.   

1981  Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.   

1981  Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond VA   

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1270  On this day in history birth of charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)   

1336  Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern was born on March - 12.   

1479  On March - 12 birth of giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence   

1515  Caspar Othmayr, composer was born on March - 12.   

1607  Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676) was born on March - 12.   

1613  André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700) was born on this day in history.   

1620  Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667) was born on March - 12.   

1626  On this day in history birth of john Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697)   

0417  Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies on March - 12.   

0604  On March - 12 gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64   

1209  On this day in history djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies   

1289  On this day in history death of king Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)   

1374  On March - 12 death of emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)   

1447  Death of Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377) on March - 12.   

1471  Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist, dies on this day in history.   

1496  Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies on March - 12.