About March 20
March 20, 2025 is the 79th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 334 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.
- 1600 –The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
- 1602 –The Dutch East India Company is established.
- 1760 –The “Great Fire” of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
- 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.
- 1922 –The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country’s banana crop.
- 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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