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12 March 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 12 March 2023 was a Sunday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2023
- The Irish chart song for 2023 was “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 12 March is Pisces.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 12 March 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 12 March 2023 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 2023 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 9 February – An Coimisiún Toghcháin (the Irish electoral commission) was established under the Electoral Reform Act 2022 to oversee elections in Ireland.
- 23 April – An incorporeal Cabinet meeting agreed to send an Emergency Consular Assistance Team to Sudan, via Djibouti – some of them leaving on the night – on a mission to evacuate 150 Irish people and their families from the armed conflict there.
- 6 May – Michael D. Higgins and Leo Varadkar, respectively, became the first Irish president and taoiseach in history to attend the coronation of a British monarch, at Westminster Abbey in London.
Life in Ireland in 2023
Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar
Petrol (per litre)
€1.75/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.98
Average House
€410,000
Weekly Wage
€665
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