About March 20
March 20, 2024 is the 80th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 315 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 20
- 235 –Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
- 1602 –The Dutch East India Company is established.
- 1616 –Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
- 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.
- 1848 –Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
- 1852 –Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
- 1861 –An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
- 1913 –Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
- 1914 –In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1980 –The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
- 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.
- 1990 –Ferdinand Marcos’s widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
- 1993 –An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.
- 1999 –Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
- 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.
- 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 Deby.
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