March 20 is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56). Typically the March equinoxfalls on this date, marking the vernal point in the Northern Hemisphere and the autumnal point in the Southern Hemisphere.
235 – Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne. He was born in Thrace or Moesia to a Gothic father and an Alanic mother. Maximinus marched on Rome in 238, but soldiers of the II Parthica in his camp assassinated him, his son, and his chief ministers.
1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. It consisted of the public execution by beheading of five Swedish nobles in the aftermath of the Battle of Stångebro (September 1598) and the de facto deposition of the Polish and Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa as king of Sweden.
1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.
1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760, destroys 349 buildings. ― From web.csulb.edu
1815 – 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.
1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. ― From space.com
1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointedTheodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
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1942 – 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".
1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan. WWII ended in 1945.
1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1995 – A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 13 and wounds 1,300 people.
2000 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
2015 – A solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.
BORN TODAY
43 BC – Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1612 – Anne Bradstreet, Puritan American poet (d. 1672)
1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (d. 1906)
1904 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
1925 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)
1928 – Fred Rogers, American minister, television host and producer (d. 2003)
1935 – Bettye Washington Greene, American chemist (d. 1995)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
43 BC – Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1612 – Anne Bradstreet, Puritan American poet (d. 1672)
1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (d. 1906)
1904 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
1925 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)
1928 – Fred Rogers, American minister, television host and producer (d. 2003)
1935 – Bettye Washington Greene, American chemist (d. 1995)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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