March 20

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March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). There are 286 days remaining.

Events

1413 - Henry V becomes King of England.
1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.
1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city stealing the jewels of the Peacock Thrown.
1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston destroyers 349 buildings.
1815 - Napoleon enters Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000 beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1848 - King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1899 - At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days after.
1914 - In New Haven, Connecticut the first international figure skating championship takes place.
1922 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1933 - Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France.
1964 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
1976 - Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco Bank.
1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first women to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.
1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.
1990 - Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
1995 - Terrorist incident: Members of the Aum Supreme Truth release sarin gas in the Tokyo on five separate subway trains killing 12 and injuring around 5,500.
1996 - In Los Angeles, California, Erik and Lyle Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther, is captured after gun battle that left a sheriff's deputy dead.