About March 20
March 20, 2021 is the 79th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 318 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 20
- 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.
- 1852 –Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
- 1861 –An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
- 1888 –The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- 1916 –Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
- 1948 –With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –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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