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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 –
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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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