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Thursday, 12 March 2026
1977 Ferit Tuzun, composer, dies at 48. 
1978 Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83.
1982 Gerry Adams elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, becoming the inaugural Sinn Fein member to do so
1983 Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies.
1984 Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78.
1987 Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan govt official, dies at 88
1989 Buck Helm are discovered alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
1991 24 die in a fire in Oakland Calif
1992 Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes
1993 Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58
1994 Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85
1995 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58.
1996 Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71.
1997 Dolph Camilli, Bkln Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90
2005 20th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, celebrations held around the United Kingdom.
2007 In this year, Civic Platform led by Donald Tusk claims a snap parliamentary election in Poland
2007 inaugural round of the presidential elections in Slovenia. The second round is to be held on nov 11.
2007 Parliamentary elections in Switzerland.
2014 Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
2018 Train derails in Yilan County, Taiwan, killing 18 and injuring 178
2018 Sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian youths kill 55 at Kasuwan Magani, Nigeria.
2018 Julia Louis-Dreyfus is presented with the Mark Twain Prize, comedy's top honor, at a ceremony in New York
2019 In this year, Canadian Federal Election: Justin Trudeau 's Liberal Party loses its majority but claims the most seats (157) to form a minority government.
2019 The 2019 Canadian federal election takes place, for all 338 seats in the House of Commons of Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party win a narrow victory to form a minority government.
2020 Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions in interview in documentary film "Francesco"
2021 Actor Alec Baldwin shots cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and injures director Joel Souza with a prop gun in rehearsal on a film set at Bonanza Ranch, New Mexico
2025 Sanae Takaichi is recorded as becoming the inaugural female Prime Minister of Japan.
2025 In this year, American Eric Lu claims the quinquennial XIX International Chopin Piano Competition at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland.
