WillDekkard
03-20-2010, 04:51 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 20th
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* 1600 The Link๖ping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Link๖ping, Sweden.
* 1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
* 1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
* 1739 Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
* 1760 The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts destroys 349 buildings.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1861 An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
* 1883 The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
* 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 (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
* 1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1999 Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
* 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.
* 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
* 2004 Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party's first leader.
* 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.
* 2006 Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop.
* 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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- March 20th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1600 The Link๖ping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Link๖ping, Sweden.
* 1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
* 1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
* 1739 Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
* 1760 The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts destroys 349 buildings.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1861 An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
* 1883 The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
* 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 (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
* 1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1999 Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
* 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.
* 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
* 2004 Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party's first leader.
* 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.
* 2006 Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop.
* 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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