What are the important events that happened on March 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 20: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 20 is the 80th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 7, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,710,892,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac 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 315 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,107 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 20 Historical Events
- 235 –Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
- 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.
- 1916 –Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
- 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”.
- 1951 –Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
- 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.
- 2003 –2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
Who were born on March 20?
- 1469 –Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)
- 1874 –Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
- 1907 –Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam (d. 2011)
- 1922 –Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader
- 1925 –John Ehrlichman, American political figure (d. 1999)
- 1933 –George Altman, American baseball player
- 1940 –Stathis Chaitas, Greek fooballer
- 1963 –Kathy Ireland, American model and actress
- 1971 –Ingrid Kavelaars, Canadian actress
- 1984 –Marcus Vick, American football player
Who died on March 20?
- 1855 –Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
- 1874 –Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)
- 1890 –Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
- 1933 –Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of Franklin Roosevelt (b. 1900)
- 1934 –Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858)
- 1977 –Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
- 2005 –Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (b. 1912)
- 2007 –Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
- 2008 –Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (b. 1935)
- 2010 –Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (b. 1920)
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