At A Glance

12 March 2015 at a glance

Day of the week
12 March 2015 was a Thursday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “King” by Years & Years.
Top Film of 2015
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2015 was Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Star sign
The star sign for 12 March is Pisces.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 12 March 2015 fell in the Year of the Goat.
Birthstone
The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 12 March 2015 was Waning Gibbous.

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 2015 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2015 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 13 February – The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition sign a cross-party, non-partisan agreement to tackle climate change, seek a strong global climate deal, and to end the use of coal for power generation in the UK.
  • 10 March – Queen Elizabeth II names the new luxury cruise ship Britannia, the largest ever cruise ship designed for the British holiday market.
  • 20 March – A partial solar eclipse occurs, ranging from 85% totality in London and southern England to 98% totality in northern Scotland.

Life in 2015

Prime Minister

David Cameron

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£3.35

Loaf of Bread

£1.42

Average House

£197,807

Weekly Wage

£768.00

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