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.
  • 1616 –
    Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
  • 1848 –
    Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
  • 1861 –
    An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
  • 1888 –
    The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
  • 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.
  • 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”.
  • 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.
  • 1952 –
    The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
  • 1956 –
    Tunisia gains independence from France.
  • 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.
  • 1987 –
    The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
  • 1995 –
    A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
  • 1999 –
    Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
  • 2006 –
    Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country’s banana crop.

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