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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
*
44 BC -
Julius Caesar's funeral.
*
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, Massachusetts Boston destroys 349 buildings.
*
1815 -
Napoleon I of France 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 -
Revolutions of 1848 in the German states:
Monarch King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
*
1852 -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's ''
Uncle Tom's Cabin'' is published.
*
1856 -
Costa Rica Costa Rican troops rout
William Walker (soldier) Walker's soldiers.
*
1861 - An earthquake completely destroys
Mendoza, a city on western
Argentina.
*
1883 - Signature of
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
*
1899 - At
Sing Sing Correctional Facility Sing Sing prison,
Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an
electric chair.
*
1904 -
Aleister Crowley invokes
Horus in
Egypt and declares the start of the
New Aeon known as the
Aeon Of The Crowned And Conquering Child.
*
1913 -
Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the
Chinese Nationalist Party (
Kuomintang) (
KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
*
1914 - In
New Haven, Connecticut, the first international
figure skating championship takes place.
*
1916 -
Albert Einstein publishes his
theory of relativity.
*
1922 - The
USS Langley USS ''Langley'' is commissioned as the first
United States Navy aircraft carrier.
*
1933 -
Giuseppe Zangara is
execution (legal) executed in
Florida Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting
Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
*
1942 -
General Douglas MacArthur, at
Terowie,
South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the
Battle of the Philippines (1942) fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of
Bataan and I shall return".
*
1948 - With a
Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the
United States, under
Eugene Ormandy and
Arturo Toscanini, are given on
CBS and
NBC.
*
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.
*
1965 - In
Naples,
Italy,
France Gall wins the tenth
Eurovision Song Contest for
Luxembourg singing "
Poupée de cire, poupée de son" (
Wax doll, talking doll).
*
1969 - In
Gibraltar,
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono get married.
*
1974 - A failed kidnap attempt is made on
Her Royal Highness Anne, Princess Royal Princess Anne and her husband
Captain Mark Phillips in
The Mall (London) The Mall, outside
Buckingham Palace,
London.
*
1985 -
Libby Riddles becomes the first woman 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 - A
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in
Warrington, Warrington Warrington, northwest
England, killing two children.
*
1995 -
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killing 12 and wounding 1300 persons.
*
2000 -
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former
Black Panther Party Black Panther once known as
H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.
*
2003 -
2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the
United States and three other countries begin military operations in
Iraq.
*
2005 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits
Fukuoka, Fukuoka Fukuoka,
Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.
*
2006 -
Cyclone Larry makes landfall in
eastern Australia. *Over 150
Chadian military Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel
United Front for Democratic Change UFDC. The growing rebel movement seeks to overthrow
United Front for Democratic Change Chadian president Idriss Deby.
Births
*
43 BC -
Ovid, Roman poet (d.
17)
*
1477 -
Jerome Emser, German theologian (d.
1527)
*
1502 -
Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d.
1575)
*
1725 -
Abdul Hamid I,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1789)
*
1735 -
Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d.
1784)
*
1737 -
Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke,
King of Thailand (d.
1809)
*
1741 -
Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d.
1828)
*
1770 -
Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d.
1843)
*
1799 -
Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d.
1839)
*
1811 -
Napoleon II of France, (d.
1832)
*
1823 -
Ned Buntline, American publisher, writer, and publicist (d.
1886)
*
1828 -
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d.
1906)
*
1831 -
Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d.
1881)
*
1834 -
Charles W. Eliot,
President of Harvard University (d.
1926)
*
1836 - Sir
Edward Poynter, British painter (d.
1919)
*
1856 - Sir
John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (d.
1941)
* 1856 -
Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor and efficiency expert (d.
1915)
*
1870 -
Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d.
1964)
*
1873 (
Julian calendar O.S.) -
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (d.
1943)
*
1874 -
Borries von Muenchhausen Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d.
1945)
*
1890 -
Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d.
1957)
* 1890 -
Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor (d.
1973)
*
1895 -
Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d.
1981)
*
1897 -
Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam
*
1903 -
Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d.
1979)
*
1904 -
B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d.
1990)
*
1906 -
Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (d.
2001)
* 1906 -
Ozzie Nelson, American actor and band leader (d.
1975)
*
1908 - Sir
Michael Redgrave, English actor (d.
1985)
*
1911 -
Alfonso GarcÃa Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1991)
*
1915 -
Rudolf Kirchschlager Rudolf Kirchschläger,
President of Austria (d.
2000)
* 1915 -
Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (d.
1997)
*
1917 - Dame
Vera Lynn, English actress and singer
*
1918 -
Jack Barry (television) Jack Barry, American television host (d.
1984)
* 1918 -
Marian McPartland, British jazz musician
*
1920 -
Pamela Harriman, British-American socialite and diplomat (d.
1997)
*
1921 -
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d.
1973)
*
1922 -
Ray Goulding, American comedian (d.
1990)
* 1922 -
Carl Reiner, American director, producer, actor, and comedian
*
1925 -
John Ehrlichman, American political figure (d.
1999)
*
1928 -
Fred Rogers, American children's television host (d.
2003)
*
1931 -
Hal Linden, American actor
*
1933 -
Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
*
1934 -
Willie Brown (politician) Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco
*
1935 -
Ted Bessell, American actor (d.
1996)
*
1936 -
Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d.
2004)
*
1937 -
Jerry Reed, American musician
*
1939 -
Brian Mulroney, eighteenth
Prime Minister of Canada
*
1945 -
Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot
*
1945 -
Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach
*
1946 - Elliot Greenbaum, American poet and novelist
*
1948 -
John de Lancie, American actor
* 1948 -
Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player
*
1949 -
Marcia Ball, American singer
*
1950 -
William Hurt, American actor
* 1950 -
Carl Palmer, British musician (
Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
*
1951 -
Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist
*
1957 -
Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
* 1957 -
Spike Lee, American film director and actor
*
1958 -
Holly Hunter, American actress
*
1959 -
Steve Borden aka
Sting (wrestler) Sting, Professional wrestler
*
1961 -
Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (
Stray Cats)
*
1962 -
Stephen Sommers, American film director
*
1963 -
Paul Annacone, American tennis player and coach
* 1963 -
Kathy Ireland, American model and actress
*
1964 -
Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
*
1972 -
Alexander Kapranos, English singer and guitarist (
Franz Ferdinand (band))
*
1974 -
Paula Garces, Colombian actress
* 1974 -
Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
*
1976 -
Chester Bennington, American musician (
Linkin Park)
*
1979 -
Bianca Lawson, American actress
*
1984 -
Marcus Vick, American football player
* 1984 -
Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
* 1984 -
Winta, Norwegian musician
Deaths
*
1191 -
Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b.
1167)
*
1239 -
Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
*
1413 - King
Henry IV of England (b.
1367)
*
1568 - Duke
Albert of Prussia (b.
1490)
*
1586 -
Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b.
1496)
*
1619 -
Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1557)
*
1673 -
Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b.
1603)
*
1727 Old Style and New Style dates O.S. - Sir
Isaac Newton, English physicist (b.
1642)
*
1730 -
Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b.
1692)
*
1732 -
Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b.
1681)
*
1746 -
Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b.
1656)
*
1793 -
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b.
1705)
*
1855 -
Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b.
1788)
*
1874 -
Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b.
1810)
*
1878 -
Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b.
1814)
*
1890 -
Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b.
1825)
*
1897 -
Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b.
1821)
*
1899 -
Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b.
1822)
*
1918 -
Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b.
1828)
*
1925 -
George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman (b.
1859)
*
1929 -
Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b.
1851)
*
1934 - Queen
Emma of the Netherlands (b.
1858)
*
1940 -
Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b.
1860)
*
1974 -
Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b.
1911)
*
1990 -
Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b.
1929)
*
1991 -
Conor Clapton, Son of Eric Clapton
*
1993 -
Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1911)
*
1994 -
Lewis Grizzard, American journalist, comedian, and actor (b.
1946)
*
1997 -
Tony Zale, American boxer (b.
1913)
*
2000 -
Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b.
1961)
*
2003 -
Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b.
1924)
*
2004 - Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands (b.
1909)
*
2005 -
Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (b.
1912)
Holidays and observances
* The
vernal equinox usually occurs on this day.
* The second day of
Quinquatria in ancient
Roman Empire Rome, held in honor of
Minerva.
*
New Year of
Iranian Calendar:
Norouz occurs on the
vernal equinox.
* Feast of
Cuthbert of Lindisfane St. Cuthbert,
patron saint of
Northumbria.
* International
Astrology Day.
*
Meat Out Day.
*
Steak and Blowjob Day was originally created to be on the 20th of March, but subsequent repostings of the message list the 14th as the official day.
*
Canberra Day.
External links
-
On this day in Canada
-
NY Times: On this day
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BBC: On This Day
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