Historical Events In March - 12

1978  Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:14.99) on March - 12.  

1980  On March - 12 jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago  

1981  On March - 12 soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station  

1981  Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond VA on this day in history.  

1982  1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs Leeward Islands on March - 12.  

1982  PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline" on this day in history.  

1982  On March - 12 elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at 90  

1983  Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1984  On March - 12 british ice dancing team, Torvill &Dean, become first skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships  

1984  On March - 12 national Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike  

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1984  Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88 on this day in history.  

1985  On March - 12 eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarian/US conductor, dies at 85  

1986  210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange on this day in history.  

1986  Giotto encounters Comet Halley on March - 12.  

1986  On this day in history susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race  

1987  "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances on March - 12.  

1987  Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North on March - 12.  

1987  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR on this day in history.  

1987  On March - 12 world Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova &Bukin (USSR)  

1987  World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva &Grinkov (USSR) on March - 12.  

1987  World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic) on March - 12.  

1987  On March - 12 world Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)  

1988  On March - 12 billie Rhodes, dies  

1989  15th People's Choice Awards on this day in history.  

1989  2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia) on this day in history.  

1989  Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election on March - 12.  

1989  On March - 12 maurice Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87  

1990  Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland on March - 12.  

1991  On this day in history 5th Soul Train Music Awards  

1991  Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92 on March - 12.  

1992  Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84 on March - 12.  

1993  On March - 12 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay  

1993  On March - 12 entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show  

1993  On March - 12 inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech  

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1270  Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325) was born on this day in history.  

1336  On this day in history birth of eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern  

1479  Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence was born on this day in history.  

1515  On this day in history birth of caspar Othmayr, composer  

1607  On this day in history birth of paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)  

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

1620  On March - 12 birth of johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)  

1626  John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697) was born on this day in history.  

0417  On this day in history innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies  

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 March - 12 death of king Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)  

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

1447  On March - 12 death of shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)  

1471  Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist, dies on March - 12.  

1496  On this day in history johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies