It happened on a… March 12

2020

NHL announces the pausing of the 2019-20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2012

“The Hunger Games” directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence premieres in Los Angeles.

2011

A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

2009

Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.

2002

Animated film “Ice Age” directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, with voices by Denis Leary and John Leguizamo premieres.

1974

“Wonder Woman” debuted on ABC-TV. The show later went to CBS-TV.

1951

The comic strip “Dennis the Menace” appeared for the first time in newspapers across the country.

1930

Ghandi began his 300 km march to the sea that symbolized his defiance of British rule over India.

1918

Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.

1894

Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi.