March 12
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[edit] Events
1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
[edit] Births
- 1930 - Vernon Law, American baseball player
- 1950 - Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
- 1956 - Dale Murphy, American baseball player
- 1965 - Steve Finley, American baseball player
- 1965 - Shawn Gilbert, American baseball player
- 1965 - Steve Levy, American sports journalist
- 1967 - Julio Dely Valdes, Panamanian footballer
- 1970 - John Nemechek, American NASCAR driver
- 1979 - Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1979 - Nidia Guenard, American professional wrestler
- 1982 - Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- 1985 - Tosh Townend, American skateboarder
[edit] Deaths
- 1973 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player
- 1978 - Gene Moore, American baseball player
- 2003 - Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist
- 1987 - Woody Hayes, American football coach
- 2006 - István Gyulai, Hungarian athletic official
