At A Glance

12 March 2021 at a glance

Day of the week
12 March 2021 was a Friday.
ARIA No. 1
The ARIA No. 1 was “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals.
Top Film of 2021
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2021 was Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Best-Selling Vehicle of 2021
Australia's top-selling new vehicle in 2021 was the Toyota HiLux.
Star sign
The star sign for 12 March is Pisces.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 12 March 2021 fell in the Year of the Ox.
Birthstone
The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 12 March 2021 was New Moon.

On this day: 12 March

  • 2004 President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly, the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
  • 2009 Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
  • 2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
  • 2019 In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.
  • 2020 The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Famous people born on 12 March

  • Lesley Manville, English actress (born 1956)
  • Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer (born 1946)
  • Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer (born 1946)
  • James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1948)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2021 in Australia

A selection from Wikipedia's '2021 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

  • 1 January – The words of the Australian national anthem, "Advance Australia Fair", are changed for the first time since 1984, amending the line "For we are young and free" to "For we are one and free".
  • 15 February – 142,000 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Australia.
  • 13 March – The 2021 Western Australian state election is held with the incumbent McGowan Labor government winning with an increased majority.

Life in Australia in 2021

Prime Minister

Scott Morrison

Monarch

Queen Elizabeth II

Petrol (per litre)

$1.45

Loaf of Bread

$3.90

Average House

$720,000

Weekly Wage

$1,770.00

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