About March 20

March 20, 2020 is the 80th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 329 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.
  • 1600 –
    The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1964 –
    The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
  • 1980 –
    The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
  • 1985 –
    Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
  • 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.
  • 1993 –
    An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.
  • 1999 –
    Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
  • 2003 –
    2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.

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