What day of the week was March 13, 2012?

The day of the week March 13th, 2012 fell on was a Tuesday. There were 26 days until Easter Sunday.

Princess Anna of Saxony (b. 1929) died on this day in 2012. As did Michael P. Barnett the English chemist and computer scientist (b. 1929) , Michel Duchaussoy the French actor (b. 1938) , Jock Hobbs the New Zealand rugby player (b. 1960) , Eileen McDonough the American actress (b. 1962) , Karl Roy the Filipino singer-songwriter (P.O.T. and Kapatid) (b. 1968) , Jacques Villiers the French engineer (b. 1924) .

At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.