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12 March 2010 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 12 March 2010 was a Friday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Pass Out” by Tinie Tempah.
- Top Film of 2010
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2010 was Toy Story 3.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 12 March is Pisces.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 12 March 2010 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 12 March 2010 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 12 March
- 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.
- 2019 In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.
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 2010 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2010 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 15 April – A cloud of volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland causes the closure of airspace over the United Kingdom and northern and western Europe.
- 7 May – 2010 general election: The Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats begin negotiations to reach either a parliamentary agreement, or to create a coalition government with a House of Commons majority.
- 29 July – Metro Bank opens its first branch, in Holborn, London, the first wholly new high street bank for more than a century.
Life in 2010
Prime Minister
Gordon Brown
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£2.85
Loaf of Bread
£1.25
Average House
£167,469
Weekly Wage
£699.00
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