About March 20

March 20, 2022 is the 79th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 308 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1916 –
    Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
  • 1922 –
    The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
  • 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.
  • 1956 –
    Tunisia gains independence from France.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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