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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1951 –Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
- 1964 –The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
- 1990 –Ferdinand Marcos’s widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
- 1993 –An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.
- 1995 –A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
- 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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