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.
- 1208 –Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1600 –The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
- 1602 –The Dutch East India Company is established.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1916 –Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –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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