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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

On This Day in History

March 12


Historical Events

538 Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general Belisarius

1455 First record of Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, a letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the Bible printed a year earlier

1918 Fearing foreign invasion, Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia's capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow

1930 Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200-mile (320 km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax

1994 The Church of England ordains its first 32 female priests at the Bristol Cathedral in Bristol, England


Famous Birthdays

Richard Steele
1672 - 1729

Jack Kerouac
1922 - 1969

Liza Minnelli
79th Birthday

Mitt Romney
78th Birthday

Also Tammy Duckworth (57) and Darryl Strawberry (63)


Famous Deaths

Sun Yat-sen
1866 - 1925

David Beatty
1871 - 1936


Wave of Doubt over Britannia

The composer who put "Rule, Britannia!" to music was born on this day, but the original words are not quite what they bellow out at the Last Night of the Proms.

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