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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 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 – 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 .
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 )
1836 - Sir Edward Poynter , painter (d. [1919]])
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
1903 - Edgar Buchanan , American actor (d. 1979 )
1904 - B. F. Skinner , behavioral psychologist, (d. 1990 )
1906 - Ozzie Nelson , actor, band leader, (d. 1975 )
1906 - Abraham Beame , former Mayor of New York City (d. 2001 )
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
1918 - Jack Barry , American television host (d. 1984 )
1918 - Marian McPartland , British jazz musician
1920 - Pamela Harriman , British-American socialite, diplomat (d. 1997 )
1921 - Rudolf Noelte , film director, (d. 2002 )
1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe , singer, (d. 1973 )
1922 - Carl Reiner , director, producer, actor, comedian
1922 - Ray Goulding , American comedian (d. 1990 )
1925 - John Ehrlichman , American political figure (d. 1999 )
1928 - Fred Rogers , children's television host, (d. 2003 )
1931 - Hal Linden , American actor
1934 - Willie Brown , mayor of San Francisco, California
1935 - Ted Bessell , American actor (d. 1996 )
1936 - Vaughn Meader , American comedian (d. 2004 )
1937 - Jerry Reed , country musician
1939 - Brian Mulroney , eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada
1943 - Paul Junger Witt , American television producer
1945 - Pat Riley , American basketball player, coach
1948 - John de Lancie , actor
1948 - Bobby Orr , ice hockey player
1949 - Marcia Ball , American blues singer
1950 - William Hurt , American actor
1950 - Carl Palmer , British musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer )
1957 - Spike Lee , American film director, actor
1957 - Theresa Russell , American actress
1957 - Vanessa Bell Calloway , American actress
1958 - Holly Hunter , actress
1962 - Stephen Sommers , film director
1963 - Kathy Ireland , supermodel and actress
1964 - Natacha Atlas , Belgian singer
1972 - Alexander Kapranos , singer/guitarist (Franz Ferdinand (band) )
1974 - Paula Garces , actress
1974 - Andrzej Pilipiuk , Polish writer
1976 - Chester Bennington , musician (Linkin Park )
1979 - Bianca Lawson , American actress
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 )
1929 - Ferdinand Foch , French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851 )
1934 - Queen Regent Emma of the Netherlands , (b. 1858 )
1974 - Chet Huntley , American television journalist
1990 - Lev Yashin , Soviet football goalkeeper, (b. 1929 )
1994 - Lewis Grizzard , American journalist, comedian, actor
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
External links
March 19 – March 21 – February 20 – April 20 -- listing of all days
