March 12, 2016 (2016-03-12) (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Business and economics
Disasters and accidents
Politics and elections
- Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016, Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016
- Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
- A protestor attempts to storm the stage as Donald Trump was talking at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, causing Secret Service agents to jump on the stage and form a wall around the presidential candidate amid the chaos. The suspect was identified as Thomas Dimassimo, 32, and was charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic, according to Chief Mike Etter of the Dayton Police Department. Dimassimo is a Black Lives Matter activist. (NBC News)
- Polish Constitutional Court crisis, 2015.
- Thousands of people take to the streets of Warsaw and other cities in Poland in protest against the government after it refused to publish the Constitutional Court's ruling that the government cannot change how the court works. (BBC)
- The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party sets a deadline of 30 days to determine the status of its alliance with Dilma Rousseff’s administration, including the option to leave the coalition. (Bloomberg)
Science and technology