At A Glance
12 March 2005 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 12 March 2005 was a Saturday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Dakota” by Stereophonics.
- Top Film of 2005
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2005 was Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 12 March is Pisces.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 12 March 2005 fell in the Year of the Rooster.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 12 March 2005 was Waxing Crescent.
On this day: 12 March
- 1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- 2003 The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
- 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.
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 2005 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2005 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 1 March – The New Forest in Hampshire becomes England's twelfth national park.
- 9 April – The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles (who takes the title Duchess of Cornwall) in a twenty-minute ceremony at Windsor Guildhall is followed by a blessing at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
- 5 May – 2005 general election: The Labour Party is returned to power for a third term, but with a greatly reduced majority of 66 seats. The Liberal Democrats win the most seats for any third party since 1923, with 62 MPs.
Life in 2005
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£2.30
Loaf of Bread
82p
Average House
£167,711
Weekly Wage
£587.00
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