Events Date 2012 March | History by KabAstro

Election of Interest

Mar 4 Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud

Mar 5 27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha
Mar 5 Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar
Mar 6 9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow

Wrecking Ball

Mar 6 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's 17th studio album "Wrecking Ball"

Mar 8 Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
Mar 8 Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns

Cricket History

Mar 9 Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announces his retirement from Test and domestic cricket

Mar 9 Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland
Mar 10 33rd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Louisville beats Cincinnati, 50-44
Mar 10 At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
Mar 11 53rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Vanderbilt beats Kentucky, 71-64
Mar 11 59th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #17 Florida State beats #4 North Carolina, 85-82
Mar 11 US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan

The Hunger Games

Mar 12 "The Hunger Games" directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence premieres in Los Angeles

Mar 12 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
Mar 12 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
Mar 12 China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade
Mar 13 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mar 13 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
Mar 13 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland
Mar 13 Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia

Film & TV History

Mar 16 George Clooney and other several prominent participants, including Martin Luther King III, are arrested outside the Sundanese Embassy for civil disobedience

Cricket History

Mar 16 Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries

Mar 16 Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
Mar 17 Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur
Mar 17 MESSENGER spacecraft begins its extended mission
Mar 17 Wales beats France, 16-9 at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff to wrap up the Grand Slam and win the Six Nations Rugby Championship; Welsh fullback Leigh Halfpenny kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
Mar 18 Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly
Mar 18 Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium
Mar 19 Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best-selling hamburger chain
Mar 20 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq
Mar 20 Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200 million dollar write down
Mar 21 Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982
Mar 21 Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
Mar 21 Sergio Agüero & Samir Nasri score to give Manchester City 2-1 win over Chelsea at City of Manchester Stadium; EPL record 20th consecutive home win; streak ends with 3-3 draw v Sunderland 31/3
Mar 22 Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New South Wales
Mar 22 Ireland returns to recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 following a fall of 1.1% in the third quarter
Mar 22 Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
Mar 22 Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya
Mar 23 African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup
Mar 24 African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony

Film & TV History

Mar 25 Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film selling access to British Prime Minister David Cameron

Film & TV History

Mar 26 Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years

Mar 26 Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal

Betrayal

Mar 27 Danielle Steel’s novel “Betrayal” is published

Mar 27 On This Day launches a sister site in Spanish, Hoy en la Historia

Election of Interest

Mar 29 George Galloway is elected as MP for Bradford West in a by-election

Mar 30 American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars
Mar 30 Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers
Mar 30 Spanish Government cuts 27 billion Euros from its budget in a tough austerity measure
Mar 31 Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated