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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 destroys 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.
1883 - Signature of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
1899 - At 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 (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 is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1933 - Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1942 - General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
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).
1966 - The World Cup is stolen from Central Hall, London
1969 - Marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
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.
1979 - REXX programming language created
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, North West England, killing two children.
1995 - Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killing 12 and wounding 1300 persons.
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.
2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
2004 - Millions worldwide protest the 2003 Iraq War under the slogan, "The World STILL Says No To War!"
Births
43 BC - Ovid, poet, (d. AD 17/AD 18)
1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, novelist, and dramatist, (d. 1843)
1811 - Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832)
1823 - Ned Buntline, "dime novelist", publisher, writer, publicist, (d. 1886)
1828 - Henrik Ibsen, playwright and dramatist, (d. 1906)
1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (d. 1881)
1834 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, (d. 1926)
1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor, efficiency expert, (d. 1915)
1870 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
1874 - Börries von Münchhausen, poet, (d. 1945)
1890 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor, (d. 1957)
1890 - Lauritz Melchior, opera singer, (d. 1973)
1895 - Fredric Wertham, Psychologist (d. 1981)
1897 - Mother Ruby Muhammad, matriarch of Black Islam
1904 - B. F. Skinner, behavioral psychologist, (d. 1990)
1906 - Ozzie Nelson, actor, band leader, (d. 1975)
1908 - Sir Michael Redgrave, actor, (d. 1985)
1915 - Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian President, (d. 2000)
1915 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1997)
1917 - Dame Vera Lynn, actress, singer
1921 - Rudolf Noelte, film director, (d. 2002)
1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer, (d. 1973)
1922 - Carl Reiner, director, producer, actor, comedian
1928 - Fred Rogers, children's television host, (d. 2003)
1934 - Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco, California
1937 - Jerry Reed, country musician
1939 - Brian Mulroney, eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada
1948 - John de Lancie, actor
1948 - Bobby Orr, ice hockey player
1950 - William Hurt, American actor
1957 - Spike Lee, American film director, actor
1958 - Holly Hunter, actress
1962 - Stephen Sommers, film director
1963 - Kathy Ireland, supermodel and actress
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1964 - Tracy Chapman, musician
1974 - Paula Garces, actress
1974 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
1976 - Chester Bennington, musician (Linkin Park)
1984 - Winta, Norwegian pop star
Deaths
1413 - King Henry IV of England, (b. 1367)
1568 - Albert of Prussia, first duke of Prussia, (b. 1490)
1619 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor
1727 - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, (b. 1642)
1730 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
1855 - Joseph Aspdin, inventor of Portland cement (b. 1788)
1925 - George Nathaniel Curzon (Lord Curzon), British statesman, (b. 1859)
1926 - Princess Louise of Sweden, (b. 1929)
1934 - Queen Regent Emma of the Netherlands, (b. 1858)
1974 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist
1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper, (b. 1929)
1997 - Tony Zale, Boxer, (b. 1913)
2000 - Gene Eugene, actor, singer, (b. 1961)
2003 - Sailor Art Thomas, professional wrestler
2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, (b. 1909)
Holidays and observances
The vernal equinox usually occurs on this day.
The second day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
New Year of Iranian Calendar: Norouz occurs on the vernal equinox.
Feast of St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria
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