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On this day March 20

2015


A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.

2014


Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.

2012


At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities 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 Déby.

2003


Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.

2000


Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.

1999


Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.

1995


The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and wounding over 1,300 people.

1993


The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.

1990


Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.

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.

1987


The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.

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.

1972


The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.

1964


The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.

1956


Tunisia gains independence from France.

1952


The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

1951


Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.

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.

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".

1933


Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.

1933


Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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.

1922


The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.

1921


The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.

1915


Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

1913


Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.

1888


The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.

1883


The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.

1861


An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.

1854


The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.

1852


Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

1848


Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.

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.

1760


The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.

1616


Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.

1602


The Dutch East India Company is established.

1600


The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.

1206


Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

673


Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.

235


Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor.

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