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
- 1208 –Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1616 –Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
- 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.
- 1861 –An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
- 1888 –The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- 1913 –Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
- 1916 –Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
- 1922 –The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- 1933 –Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida’s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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.
- 1980 –The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
- 1987 –The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
- 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.
- 2003 –2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
- 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.
- 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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