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Events on the 20th of March in history

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20 Mar 0141 6th predicted perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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20 Mar 0235 Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
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20 Mar 0673 Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
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20 Mar 1206 Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
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20 Mar 1345 Saturn / Jupiter / Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"
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20 Mar 1525 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of Protestants
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20 Mar 1569 Duke van Alva leads "tenth penning" in Ponts the C
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20 Mar 1598 French king Henri IV & duke van Mercour sign treaty
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20 Mar 1600 The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
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20 Mar 1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
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20 Mar 1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
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20 Mar 1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
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20 Mar 1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
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20 Mar 1627 France & Spain signs accord for fighting protestantism
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20 Mar 1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"
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20 Mar 1760 The Great Boston Fire of 1760, destroys 349 buildings.
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20 Mar 1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
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20 Mar 1800 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
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20 Mar 1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes Monarch of the Netherlands
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20 Mar 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.
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20 Mar 1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
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20 Mar 1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
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20 Mar 1833 US and Siam sign commercial treaty
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20 Mar 1833 US & Siam conclude commercial treaty
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20 Mar 1848 Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
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20 Mar 1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
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20 Mar 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
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20 Mar 1854 The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
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20 Mar 1861 An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
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20 Mar 1863 Battle of Pensacola Florida - evacuated by Federals
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20 Mar 1865 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
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20 Mar 1865 Michigan authorizes workers' cooperatives
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20 Mar 1868 Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville Kentucky of $14,000
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20 Mar 1883 The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
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20 Mar 1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed; protects industrial property
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20 Mar 1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine
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20 Mar 1885 Yiddish theater opens in New York with Golldfaden operetta
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20 Mar 1886 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation, Massachusetts
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20 Mar 1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
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20 Mar 1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
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20 Mar 1890 General Federation of Womens' Clubs founded
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20 Mar 1890 German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
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20 Mar 1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect US citizens
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20 Mar 1896 Uprising in Matabeleland
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20 Mar 1897 1st known intercollegiate basketball game, Yale beats University of Pennsylvania 32-10
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20 Mar 1897 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York
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20 Mar 1897 France signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
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20 Mar 1906 George B Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" premieres in London
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20 Mar 1911 Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway, New York City
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20 Mar 1911 National Squah Tennis Association formed (New York NY)
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20 Mar 1913 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
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20 Mar 1914 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
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20 Mar 1916 Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
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20 Mar 1916 Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium
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20 Mar 1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1
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20 Mar 1920 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld
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20 Mar 1920 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Sherwin Badger
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20 Mar 1922 The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
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20 Mar 1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier
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20 Mar 1922 WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
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20 Mar 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.
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20 Mar 1923 Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA
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20 Mar 1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
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20 Mar 1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn
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20 Mar 1924 Stanley Cup: Montr
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20 Mar 1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
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20 Mar 1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
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20 Mar 1932 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
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20 Mar 1933 Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
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20 Mar 1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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20 Mar 1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed
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20 Mar 1934 Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia Athletics in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
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20 Mar 1934 Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany
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20 Mar 1934 Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany
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20 Mar 1935 "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio
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20 Mar 1935 "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio
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20 Mar 1937 Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain
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20 Mar 1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania
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20 Mar 1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
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20 Mar 1941 Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn
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20 Mar 1942 Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
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20 Mar 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".
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20 Mar 1942 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
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20 Mar 1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"
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20 Mar 1942 Major German assault on Malta
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20 Mar 1943 British offensive against Mareth-line
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20 Mar 1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks
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20 Mar 1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16
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20 Mar 1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
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20 Mar 1945 US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour division attack Saar
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20 Mar 1946 Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
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20 Mar 1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
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20 Mar 1948 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
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20 Mar 1948 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.
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20 Mar 1948 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscanini on NBC
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20 Mar 1948 20th Academy Awards: "Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald Colman, Loretta Young win
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20 Mar 1951 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
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20 Mar 1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
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20 Mar 1952 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris, " H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win
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20 Mar 1952 US Senate ratifies peace treaty with Japan
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20 Mar 1952 The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
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20 Mar 1952 24th Academy Awards: "American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win
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20 Mar 1952 US Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan
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20 Mar 1953 Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to give clubs the sole
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20 Mar 1953 Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to give clubs the sole right to ban radio-TV broadcasts of major league games in their own territory
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20 Mar 1954 "King & I" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
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20 Mar 1954 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76
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20 Mar 1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
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20 Mar 1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Mar 1956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
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20 Mar 1956 Tunisia gains independence from France.
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20 Mar 1956 E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st Secretary of Polish CP
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20 Mar 1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) explodes
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20 Mar 1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
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20 Mar 1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
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20 Mar 1958 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon line
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20 Mar 1958 Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
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20 Mar 1958 Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
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20 Mar 1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater
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20 Mar 1963 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)
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20 Mar 1963 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (New York NY)
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20 Mar 1963 Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke
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20 Mar 1964 The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
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20 Mar 1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
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20 Mar 1965 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80
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20 Mar 1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New Zealand at Delhi
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20 Mar 1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
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20 Mar 1967 Supremes release "The Happening"
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20 Mar 1967 Supremes release "The Happening"
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20 Mar 1967 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
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20 Mar 1968 LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
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20 Mar 1968 Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign)
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20 Mar 1968 President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
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20 Mar 1969 Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa
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20 Mar 1969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar
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20 Mar 1969 US President Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970
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20 Mar 1971 Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game
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20 Mar 1972 The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
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20 Mar 1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche
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20 Mar 1972 Sicco L. Mansholt succeeds Franco M. Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
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20 Mar 1973 Roberto Clemente elected to hall of fame, 11 weeks after his death
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20 Mar 1974 An unsuccessful attempt is made by a lone perpetrator to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
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20 Mar 1976 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 1000 meter (1:15.70)
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20 Mar 1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
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20 Mar 1977 Communists / socialists win French municipal elections
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20 Mar 1977 Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
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20 Mar 1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election in India
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20 Mar 1978 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th penalty shot against Islanders
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20 Mar 1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center
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20 Mar 1980 The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
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20 Mar 1980 The Mi Amigo ship containing England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
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20 Mar 1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran
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20 Mar 1981 Argentine ex-President Isabel Per
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20 Mar 1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor
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20 Mar 1982 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson, Leeward Islands vs Barbados
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20 Mar 1982 France performs nuclear test
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20 Mar 1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 weeks
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20 Mar 1982 Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa
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20 Mar 1983 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
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20 Mar 1984 Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
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20 Mar 1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
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20 Mar 1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
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20 Mar 1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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20 Mar 1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
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20 Mar 1986 Jacques Chirac forms French government
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20 Mar 1986 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)
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20 Mar 1986 Jacques Chirac become Prime Minister of French government
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20 Mar 1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
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20 Mar 1987 The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
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20 Mar 1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
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20 Mar 1987 NASA launches Palapa B2P
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20 Mar 1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
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20 Mar 1987 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
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20 Mar 1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7: 0.36)
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20 Mar 1988 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.
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20 Mar 1988 David Henry Hwang's "M Butterfly" premieres in New York NY
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20 Mar 1988 Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open
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20 Mar 1988 Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Mar 1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
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20 Mar 1989 Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA
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20 Mar 1990 Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
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20 Mar 1990 Los Angeles Lakers retire Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33
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20 Mar 1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
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20 Mar 1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Disney
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20 Mar 1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records
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20 Mar 1991 Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus
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20 Mar 1991 US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland
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20 Mar 1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
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20 Mar 1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses
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20 Mar 1993 The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
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20 Mar 1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500 meter (36.02 seconds)
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20 Mar 1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
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20 Mar 1993 Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
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20 Mar 1994 "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances
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20 Mar 1994 "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
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20 Mar 1994 Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X
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20 Mar 1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden NY, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna
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20 Mar 1994 "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
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20 Mar 1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins
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20 Mar 1994 El Salvador's 1st Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war
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20 Mar 1994 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
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20 Mar 1994 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup
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20 Mar 1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship
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20 Mar 1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa
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20 Mar 1995 A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 13 and wounds 1,300 people.
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20 Mar 1995 Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single since their 1970 breakup
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20 Mar 1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
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20 Mar 1995 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured
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20 Mar 1996 "Love Thy Neighbor, " opens at Booth Theater, New York City
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20 Mar 1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
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20 Mar 1996 "Love Thy Neighbor" opens at Booth Theater NYC
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20 Mar 1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents
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20 Mar 1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)
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20 Mar 1997 "Play On!, " opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances
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20 Mar 1997 Mens Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
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20 Mar 1997 Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
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20 Mar 1999 Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
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20 Mar 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.
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20 Mar 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.
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20 Mar 2006 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
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20 Mar 2012 At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
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20 Mar 2014 Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
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20 Mar 2015 A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.
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