March 20

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Today in History: March 20
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March 20 is also the usual date of the vernal equinox (first day of spring) in the Northern Hemisphere, and the autumnal equinox (first day of autumn) in the Southern Hemisphere, therefore it is frequently the date of traditional Iranian holiday Nowruz in many countries.

Events

1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 - Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years imprisonment.
1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts destroys 349 buildings.
1815 - Napoleon I of France 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 - Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: Monarch Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1856 - Costa Rican troops rout William Walker (soldier)'s soldiers.
1861 - An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina, a city in western Argentina.
1883 - Signature of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
1899 - At Sing Sing Correctional Facility prison, Martha M. Place is sentenced to become the first woman executed in an electric chair.
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), 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 (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1933 - Giuseppe Zangara is execution (legal) in Florida electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1942 - In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans.
1942 - Holocaust: in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, Germany SS murder 3,000 Jews, including 600 children, annihilating 70% of Rohatyn's Jewish ghetto.
1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the Battle of the Philippines (1942), in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
1948 - With a American Federation of Musicians ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
1951 - Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France.
1964 - The wiktionary:Precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
1974 - A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Anne, Princess Royal and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall (London), outside Buckingham Palace, London.
1980 - The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog 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, Warrington, northwest England, killing two children.
1995 - A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
1999 - Legoland California opens in Carlsbad, California.
2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther Party once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia (U.S. state) 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.
2004 - Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, thus becoming the first leader in the party's history.
2005 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.
2006 - Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop.
2006 - Over 150 Chadian military are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel United Front for Democratic Change. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Heads of state of Chad Idriss Deby.

Births

43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)
1502 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)
1725 - Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
1735 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)
1737 - Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)
1741 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828)
1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
1799 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839)
1811 - Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832)
1823 - Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886)
1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)
1831 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
1834 - Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (d. 1926)
1836 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (d. 1886)
1836 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (d. 1919)
1840 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
1856 - Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941)
1856 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (d. 1915)
1870 - Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)
1874 - Borries von Muenchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
1876 - William Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
1879 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
1882 - René Coty, French President (d.1962)
1890 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d. 1957)
1890 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor (d. 1973)
1895 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
1897 - Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam
1903 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1906 - Abraham Beame, American politician (d. 2001)
1906 - Ozzie Nelson, American actor (d. 1975)
1908 - Michael Redgrave, English actor (d. 1985)
1911 - Alfonso García Robles, Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1991)
1914 - Wendell Corey, American actor (d. 1968)
1915 - Rudolf Kirchschlager, President of Austria (d. 2000)
1915 - Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist (d. 1997)
1916 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
1917 - Vera Lynn, English actress and singer
1918 - Jack Barry (television), American TV host (d. 1984)
1918 - Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist
1920 - Pamela Harriman, British-American diplomat (d. 1997)
1921 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973)
1922 - Ray Goulding, American comedian (d. 1990)
1922 - Carl Reiner, American film director
1923 - Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani Author, Journalist and Political Activist (d. 2006)
1924 - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (d. 1998)
1925 - John Ehrlichman, American political figure (d. 1999)
1927 - John Joubert (composer), South African-born British composer
1928 - Fred Rogers, American TV host (d. 2003)
1929 - Germán Robles, Spanish actor
1931 - Hal Linden, American actor
1933 - George Altman, American baseball player
1933 - Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
1934 - Willie Lewis Brown, Jr., American politician
1935 - Ted Bessell, American actor (d. 1996)
1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Reggae artist
1936 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004)
1937 - Jerry Reed, American singer and actor
1939 - Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada
1941 - Pat Corrales, American baseball player
1943 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
1943 - Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist
1943 - Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer
1945 - Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot
1945 - Rick Berman, American TV and film producer
1945 - Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author
1945 - Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach
1948 - John de Lancie, American actor
1948 - Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 - Marcia Ball, American singer and pianist
1950 - William Hurt, American actor
1950 - Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
1951 - Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist
1952 - Geoff Brabham, Australian racing driver
1954 - Mike Francesa, American sports talk show host
1957 - Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
1957 - David Foster (woodchopper), Australian world champion woodchopper
1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
1957 - Theresa Russell, American actress
1958 - Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist
1958 - Holly Hunter, American actress
1959 - Steve McFadden, British actor
1959 - Sting (wrestler), American professional wrestler
1961 - Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer
1961 - Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats)
1962 - Stephen Sommers, American film director
1963 - Paul Annacone, American tennis player
1963 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (d. 2007)
1963 - Manabu Suzuki, Japanese racing driver and broadcaster
1964 - Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1966 - Alka Yagnik, Indian singer
1969 - Caroline Brunet, Quebec kayaker
1969 - Mannie Fresh, American producer
1971 - Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player
1971 - Touré, American writer
1972 - Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand (band))
1972 - Michael Cameron, Philanthopist
1973 - Jung Woo-sung, South Korean actor
1973 - Cedric Yarbrough, American actor
1974 - Paula Garces, Colombian actress
1974 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
1976 - Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park)
1979 - Bianca Lawson, American actress
1979 - Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
1980 - Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
1980 - Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer
1982 - Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer
1982 - Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1984 - Christy Carlson Romano, American actress
1984 - Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality
1984 - Markus Niemelä, Finnish racing driver
1984 - Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
1984 - Marcus Vick, American football player
1984 - Winta, Norwegian musician
1987 - Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer
1987 - Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player
1987 - João Alves de Assis Silva, Brazilian footballer

Deaths

1239 - Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)
1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)
1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, 4th. husband of Queen Catherine Parr (executed) (b. 1508)
1568 - Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)
1586 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)
1619 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
1673 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)
1727 Old Style and New Style dates - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist (b. 1642)
1730 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
1732 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
1780 - Sir Benjamin Truman - English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
1793 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)
1835 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
1855 - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
1865 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)
1878 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
1890 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
1897 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
1916 - Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884)
1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
1925 - George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman (b. 1859)
1929 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
1931 - Hermann Müller (politician), Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1934 - Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858)
1940 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
1947 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884)
1964 - Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and author (b. 1923)
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (b. 1920)
1972 - Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
1974 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)
1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)
1991 - Eric Clapton#Tragedy again, son of Eric Clapton (b. 1986)
1992 - Georges Delerue, French film composer (b. 1925)
1993 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
1995 - Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
1997 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
1998 - George Howard (jazz), American jazz saxophone musician
2000 - Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)
2001 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)
2003 - Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
2004 - Pierre Sévigny, French Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1917)
2005 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (b. 1912)
2007 - Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (born 1939)
2007 - Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (b. 1938)
2007 - Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (born 1948)

Holidays and observances

The vernal equinox usually occurs on this day.
The second day of Quinquatria in ancient Roman Empire, held in honor of Minerva.
New Year of Iranian Calendar: Norouz occurs on the vernal equinox.
Canberra Day
Though dependent on the exact day of the vernal equinox, International Astrology Day is sometimes celebrated on March 20 if the equinox falls on this day.

Liturgical observances

Feast of Cuthbert of Lindisfane, patron saint of Northumbria (d.704)
Abdon and Sennen at Soissons Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
Saint Herbert (d.687)
Saint Wulfram (d.704)
Saint Alexandra

References External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

March 20 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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March 20, 2008
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American missiles hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein.

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ITN - World news on March 20, 2008
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Hermit Eclipse: Total Solar Eclipse: March 20 2015
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