Wikipedia: March 20

March 20
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March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). There are 286 days remaining.

Events

1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.
1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston destroyers 349 buildings.
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1848 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1899 - At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after.
1914 - In New Haven, Connecticut the first international figure skating championship takes place.
1922 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1933 - Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France.
1964 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
1966- The World Cup is stolen from Central Hall, London
1974- A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
1976 - Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco Bank.
1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first women to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.
1986 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France
1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.
1990 - Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
1993- An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Warrington, North West England, killing two children.
1995 - Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
1996 - In Los Angeles, California, Erik and Lyle Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther, is captured after gun battle that left a sheriff's deputy dead.

Births

43 BC - Ovid, poet († 17/18)
1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist († 1843)
1811 - Napoleon II of France († 1832)
1823 - Ned Buntline, "dime novelist", publisher, writer, publicist († 1886)
1828 - Henrik Ibsen, playwright and dramatist († 1906)
1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor, efficiency expert
1874 - Börries von Münchhausen, poet († 1945)
1890 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor († 1957)
1890 - Lauritz Melchior, opera singer († 1973)
1904 - B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist († 1990)
1906 - Ozzie Nelson, actor, band leader († 1975)
1908 - Sir Michael Redgrave, actor († 1985)
1915 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian President († 2000)
1917 - Dame Vera Lynn, actress, singer
1921 - Rudolf Noelte, film director († 2002)
1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer († 1973)
1922 - Carl Reiner, director, producer, actor, comedian
1928 - Fred Rogers, children's television host († 2003)
1934 - Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco, California
1937 - Jerry Reed, country musician
1939 - Brian Mulroney, eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada
1948 - Bobby Orr, ice hockey player
1950 - William Hurt, actor
1958 - Holly Hunter, actress
1957 - Spike Lee, film director, actor
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1964 - Tracy Chapman, musician
1974 - Carsten Ramelow, football player, National Team of Germany
1974 - Paula Garces, actress
1976 - Chester Bennington, musician ("Linkin Park")

Deaths

1413 - King Henry IV of England
1568 - Albert of Prussia, first duke of Prussia
1727 - Sir Isaac Newton, physicist
1925 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman
1926 - Princess Louise of Sweden
1974 - Chet Huntley, television journalist
1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper
1997 - Tony Zale, Boxer
2000 - Gene Eugene, actor, singer

Holidays and observances

An equinox usually occurs on this day.
The second day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
Steak and Blowjob Day.

'\See Also:'

March 19 - March 21 - February 20 - April 20 -- listing of all days

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