March 20 Events |
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| March 20th, 2006 (March 20 2006) | Event | Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country s banana crop. | |
| March 20th, 2006 (March 20 2006) | Event | Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby. | |
| 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, 2004 (March 20 2004) | Event | Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party s first leader. | |
| March 20th, 2003 (March 20 2003) | Event | 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq. | |
| March 20th, 2000 (March 20 2000) | Event | 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. | |
| March 20th, 1999 (March 20 1999) | Event | Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California. | |
| March 20th, 1993 (March 20 1993) | Event | An IRA bomb explodes in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children. | |
| March 20th, 1990 (March 20 1990) | Event | Ferdinand Marcos s widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. | |
| March 20th, 1988 (March 20 1988) | Event | Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People s Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet. | |
| March 20th, 1987 (March 20 1987) | Event | The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT. | |
| 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, 1980 (March 20 1980) | Event | The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast. | |
| March 20th, 1974 (March 20 1974) | Event | Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London. | |
| March 20th, 1969 (March 20 1969) | Event | John Lennon and Yoko ono were married. | John Lennon Quotes |
| March 20th, 1964 (March 20 1964) | Event | The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962. | |
| March 20th, 1956 (March 20 1956) | Event | Tunisia gains independence from France. | |
| March 20th, 1952 (March 20 1952) | Event | The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan. | |
| March 20th, 1951 (March 20 1951) | Event | Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshu is founded. | |
| March 20th, 1948 (March 20 1948) | Event | 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. | |
| March 20th, 1942 (March 20 1942) | Event | World War II: In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans. | |
| March 20th, 1942 (March 20 1942) | Event | Holocaust: in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, the German SS murder 3,000 Jews, including 600 children, annihilating 70% of Rohatyn s Jewish ghetto. | |
| March 20th, 1942 (March 20 1942) | Event | World War II: 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". | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| March 20th, 1933 (March 20 1933) | Event | Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt. | |
| March 20th, 1922 (March 20 1922) | Event | The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. | |
| March 20th, 1916 (March 20 1916) | Event | Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. | Albert Einstein Quotes |
| March 20th, 1914 (March 20 1914) | Event | In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place. | |
| March 20th, 1913 (March 20 1913) | Event | Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later. | |
| March 20th, 1883 (March 20 1883) | Event | The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed. | |
| March 20th, 1861 (March 20 1861) | Event | An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina. | |
| March 20th, 1856 (March 20 1856) | Event | Costa Rican troops rout Walker s soldiers. | |
| March 20th, 1852 (March 20 1852) | Event | Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin is published. | Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes |
| March 20th, 1848 (March 20 1848) | Event | Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. | |
| 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, 1760 (March 20 1760) | Event | The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts destroys 349 buildings. | |
| March 20th, 1739 (March 20 1739) | Event | Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. | |
| March 20th, 1616 (March 20 1616) | Event | Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. | Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes |
| March 20th, 1602 (March 20 1602) | Event | The Dutch East India Company is established. | |
| March 20th, 1600 (March 20 1600) | Event | The Linkoping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linkoping, Sweden. | |
