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20 March, 2006

Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the countrys banana crop.

20 March, 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.

20 March, 2005

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.

20 March, 2004

Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, thus becoming the first leader in the partys history.

20 March, 2003

2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.

20 March, 2000

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriffs deputy dead.

20 March, 1999

Legoland California opens in Carlsbad, California.

20 March, 1995

A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.

20 March, 1993

A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children.

20 March, 1990

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

20 March, 1988

Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.

20 March, 1987

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

20 March, 1986

Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.

20 March, 1985

Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

20 March, 1980

The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.

20 March, 1974

A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.

20 March, 1969

John Lennon & Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar

20 March, 1964

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

20 March, 1956

Tunisia gains independence from France.

20 March, 1952

The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

20 March, 1951

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

20 March, 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.

20 March, 1942

In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans.

20 March, 1942

Holocaust: in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, German SS murder 3,000 Jews, including 600 children, annihilating 70% of Rohatyns Jewish ghetto.

20 March, 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".

20 March, 1934

1934 Great Hakodate fire, 4,170 square kilometers has lost, caused fire. Japanese authority estimated 2,165 killed, injured 9,485, 145,500 homeless. The great urban fire has worst disaster, except air bomb, earthquake fire in Japanese history.

20 March, 1933

Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Floridas electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

20 March, 1922

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

20 March, 1916

Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

20 March, 1914

In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.

20 March, 1913

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

20 March, 1899

At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place is sentenced to become the first woman executed in an electric chair.

20 March, 1883

Signature of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.

20 March, 1861

An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, a city in western Argentina.

20 March, 1856

Costa Rican troops rout Walkers soldiers.

20 March, 1852

Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin is published.

20 March, 1848

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

20 March, 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.

20 March, 1760

The "Great Fire" of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

20 March, 1739

Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

20 March, 1616

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

20 March, 1602

The Dutch East India Company is established.

20 March, 1600

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

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