About the day » Saturday March 12, 1966Calender converter

• Teresa Lynn Post, Ogden (Weber County) (Utah) († 2010)
• wilhelmina gertruda mathea (helma) ghielen, helden-koningslust
• Sandra Lea Ziegler, Collyer, Trego, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Cornelis Willem Stoppelenburg, Papendrecht, Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1966)
• Maria Hel. Van den Bulck, Duffel († 1970)
• Lidy Andrea Muskee († 2014)
• Benny Weijs († 1981)
• Teresa Lynn Post, Ogden, Weber, Utah (USA) († 2010)
• Benny Weijs, Sint Jansklooster, Nederland († 1981)
• Roxanne Boeldak

• Adrianus Antonius Blok (86), The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands, Europe
• Antje van der Veen (56), Wildervank
• Anko Ebel Elzes (43), Eenrum
• Visser (81), Lemsterland (Lemmer)
• Anna Geertruida Bras (64)
• Andrew Alvin Borgeson (74), Salt Lake City-Utah (USA)
• Cornelis Meijer (76), Amerongen
• Bernardus Theodorus Tempels (60), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Ebert (70), Schermerhorn
• Cornelis de Plaa (88), Los Angeles, Verenigde Staten

• 1963 » John Andretti, American race car driver († 2020)
• 1964 » Dieter Eckstein, retired German footballer
• 1964 » Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna
• 1965 » Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party
• 1965 » Steve Finley, American baseball player
• 1966 » David Daniels, American countertenor
• 1966 » Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager
• 1968 » Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer
• 1968 » Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician

• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
• 1957 » Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
• February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
• March 1 » The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
• July 1 » The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• November 24 » Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.

The temperature on March 12, 1966 was between 2.4 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.