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.
- 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.
- 1852 –Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1980 –The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
- 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.
- 2003 –2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
- 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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