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March 20th, 2005 (March 20 2005) | Event | 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. | |
March 20th, 2005 (March 20 2005) | Death | Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (born in 1912) | |
March 20th, 1995 (March 20 1995) | Death | Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (born in 1948) | |
March 20th, 1985 (March 20 1985) | Event | Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. | |
March 20th, 1945 (March 20 1945) | Birth | Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot | |
March 20th, 1945 (March 20 1945) | Birth | Rick Berman, American TV and film producer | |
March 20th, 1945 (March 20 1945) | Birth | Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author | |
March 20th, 1945 (March 20 1945) | Birth | Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach | |
March 20th, 1935 (March 20 1935) | Birth | Ted Bessell, American actor (died in 1996) | |
March 20th, 1925 (March 20 1925) | Birth | John Ehrlichman, American political figure (died in 1999) | |
March 20th, 1925 (March 20 1925) | Death | George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman (born in 1859) | |
March 20th, 1915 (March 20 1915) | Birth | Rudolf Kirchschlager, President of Austria (died in 2000) | |
March 20th, 1915 (March 20 1915) | Birth | Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist (died in 1997) | |
March 20th, 1895 (March 20 1895) | Birth | Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (died in 1981) | |
March 20th, 1865 (March 20 1865) | Death | Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (born in 1833) | |
March 20th, 1855 (March 20 1855) | Death | Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (born in 1788) | |
March 20th, 1835 (March 20 1835) | Death | Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (born in 1794) | |
March 20th, 1815 (March 20 1815) | Event | After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. | |
March 20th, 1735 (March 20 1735) | Birth | Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (died in 1784) | |
March 20th, 1725 (March 20 1725) | Birth | Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (died in 1789) | |