March 20

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on March 20. From 1900 until now. March 20 is under the sign of Pisces. Famous birthdays on this day include Chester Bennington (1976), Xavier Dolan (1989) and Spike Lee (1957). Several movies were released around March 20 over the years, such as Singin' in the Rain in 1952 directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly and Withnail & I in 1987 directed by Bruce Robinson.
But much more happened on March 20 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Feast of St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (died 704)
Saint Alexandra
Saint Herbert (died 687)
Canberra Day
Meat Out Day
International Astrology Day
New Year of Iranian Calendar: Norouz occurs on the vernal equinox.
The second day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
The vernal equinox usually occurs on this day.
Saint Wulfram (d.704)
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Events

2019 Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney: The Walt Disney Company completes its $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox's film and TV assets (with the exception of the business, broadcasting network, news, and sports assets owned by the newly-formed Fox Corporation). (The Hollywood Reporter)
2018 Syrian Civil War: A rocket fired from rebel-held Eastern Ghouta strikes a popular market in Damascus, killing at least 35 people, according to Syrian state TV SANA. (Reuters) (Channel News Asia)An airstrike in Eastern Ghouta kills two women and 15 children in an underground school. (BBC)
2017 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): A car bomb in Baghdad's southwestern Hayy Al-A'amel neighborhood kills at least 23 people, and wounds 45 others. (AP via Fox News)
2016 March 2016 Istanbul bombing: Turkish authorities name a Turkish man with alleged ties to the Islamic State responsible for this weekend's suicide bombing in Istanbul. (The Washington Post)
2015 Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant: Islamic State releases a video showing the execution of three Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq with threats to execute dozens more. (Reuters)An Islamic state attack on a Kurdish Nowruz festival (New Year's Day) kills 45 people. (AAP via SBS)
2014 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: 2014 Kabul Serena Hotel attack: Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least 9 people, including 4 foreigners. (Yahoo News)Suicide bombers attack a police station in the city of Jalalabad resulting in at least 11 deaths and 22 people being injured. (Reuters)
2013 British horror writer James Herbert dies at the age of 69 in Sussex, England. (BBC) (The Bookseller) (The Guardian)
2012 Human Rights Watch raises claims of serious human rights abuses in a clash between Myanmar Armed Forces and the Kachin Independence Army in a dispute in Kachin State that has displaced approximately 75,000 people. (Reuters)
2011 Arab Spring
2010 A series of severe sandstorms hit north China, affecting the regions of Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia and the provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei. (China Daily)
2009 The United States Navy's USS ''Hartford'' and USS ''New Orleans'' collide in the Strait of Hormuz. (US Navy)
2008 Yves Leterme is sworn in as Prime Minister of Belgium. (''The Guardian'')
2007 At least 27 people are killed in a landslide in northern Pakistan following days of heavy rain. (Reuters via the Irish Times)
2006 Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop.
2005 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.
2004 ROC presidential election: Chen Shui-bian is declared the winner over Lien Chan by fewer than 30,000 votes of nearly 13,000,000 cast (0.25%). Lien calls the result unfair and demands it be voided. A controversial referendum is invalidated by low turnout. (BBC) (CNN)
2003 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
2002 The U.S. Senate passes the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill 60–40.
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.
1999 Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
1997 Play On!, opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances
1996 Love Thy Neighbor, opens at Booth Theater, New York City
1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
1994 Cyrano - The Musical closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England
1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set
1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Walt Disney Company.
1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident
1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
1988 Mike Tyson knocks out Tony Tubbs in two rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1987 Soap opera Capitol final episode
1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
1984 US Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools.
1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor.
1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran.
1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center.
1977 Communists / socialists win French municipal elections
1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed robbery
1974 Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
1973 Roberto Clemente elected to Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death.
1971 Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game.
1970 Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation (ACCT) (Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique).
1969 US President Richard Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970.
1968 Military intervenes in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign).
1967 Supremes release The Happening
1966 The World Cup Trophy (the quotJules Rimetquot) is stolen at an exhibition it is later found by a dog named quotPicklesquot and his owner David Corbett.
1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 versus New Zealand at Delhi, India.
1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
1963 1st Pop Art exhibition (NYC)
1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater.
1958 50 snow across the Mason-Dixon line
1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it.
1956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia, Pennsylvania).
1953 Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill to give clubs the sole
1952 24th Academy Awards: American in Paris, Humphrey Bogart and Vivian Leigh win.
1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java.
1950 The Polish government decides to confiscate the property of the Polish Catholic Church.
1949 The Chicago, Burlington amp Quincy, Denver amp Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the ''California Zephyr'' passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.
1948 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
1946 The US Military Government in Berlin announces the capture of Mildred Gillars of Maine. Gillars was known as Axis Sally for her Berlin radio broadcasts to US troops in North Africa and Europe, describing the comforts of home and the folly of war with Germany.
1945 US 70th Infantry division / 7th Armour division attack Saar
1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes.
1943 German U-384 bombed and sinks
1942 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
1941 Nazi-German / Yugoslav pact drawn
1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania.
1935 Your Hit Parade makes its debut on radio.
1934 Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia Athletics in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1932 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR.
1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin.
1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph.
1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn.
1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent.
1922 WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1920 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Theresa Weld.
1916 Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1914 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven
1913 Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza announces his Plan of Guadalupe, and begins his rebellion against Victoriano Huerta's government as head of the ''Constitutionals''.
1911 National Squah Tennis Association formed (New York City, New York).
1905 Grover Shoe Factory disaster: A boiler explosion, building collapse and fire in Brockton, Massachusetts kills 58.
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