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.

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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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 "Poup�e de cire, poup�e de son" (Wax doll, talking doll).
1966 – The World Cup is stolen from Central Hall, London
1969 – In Gibraltar, John Lennon and Yoko Ono get married.
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 the armed robbery of a San Francisco, California 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, northwest England, killing two children.
1995 – Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killing 12 and wounding 1300 persons.
1996 – In Los Angeles, California, Erik Menendez 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 once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a 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, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.