Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 20
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| March equinox ({{nowrap|21:58 UTC}}, 2019)
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| ; Independence Day in Tunisia (1956)
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| 235 – Maximinus Thrax acceded to the throne of the Roman Empire as a so-called barracks emperor, who gained power by virtue of his command of the army.
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| 1600 – Five advisers to Polish–Swedish king Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed, effectively ending his reign in Sweden.
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| 1602 – The Dutch East India Company—the first company to issue stock, one of the first multinational corporations, and possibly the first megacorporation—was established.
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| 1815 – After escaping from exile in Elba, Napoleon entered Paris, beginning the period known as the Hundred Days.
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| 1848 – Due to the European Revolutions, King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicated in favour of his son, Maximilian.
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| 1854 – The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, by politicians opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States.
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| 1883 – Eleven countries signed the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, one of the first intellectual-property treaties.
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| 1995 – The Aum Shinrikyo sect carried out a poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 people and injuring thousands of others with sarin.
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| 2003 – A U.S.-led coalition force invaded Iraq, beginning the Iraq War.
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| 2006 – Cyclone Larry made landfall in Far North Queensland, eventually causing nearly {{Nowrap|AU$1 billion}} in total damage and destroying over 80 percent of Australia's banana crop.
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| Ai Ogawa |d|2010
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- 1760 – A fire of unknown cause broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, destroying 349 buildings.
- 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, was published.
- 1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosted the opening of Pablo Picasso's first solo United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
- 1939 – Germany issued an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding the return of the Klaipėda Region under threat of invasion.
- 1942 – World War II: After being forced to flee the Philippines for Australia, US Army general Douglas MacArthur (pictured) announced: "I came through and I shall return."
- 1993 – The Troubles: Two children were killed by the second of two bomb attacks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Warrington, England.
- Born/died: | Wareru |b|1253| Maurice Csák |d|1336| Muhammad bin Tughluq |d|1351| Alexios III of Trebizond |d|1390| Isaac Newton |d|1726/27| Adrienne Lecouvreur |d|1730|Benjamin Truman |d|1780| James Tod |b|1782| Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck |b|1870| Amanda Clement |b|1888| Abraham Beame |b|1906| Elisabeth Geleerd |b|1909| Mihajlo Petrović |d|1913| S. Arasaratnam |b|1930 Dorothy Campbell |d|1945| Amir Hamzah |d|1946| Zillur Rahman |d|2013| Eva Burrows |d|2015
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- Napoleon's escape from Elba appears on February 26 so Hundred Days should not appear in the same year
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- 1724 – Following the death of Pope Innocent XIII, a papal conclave convened in Rome to elect a new pope.
- 1861 – An earthquake occurred in the Argentine province of Mendoza, causing at least 6,000 deaths and destroying most of the buildings in the province's capital city.
- 1922 – The United States Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier, {{USS|Langley|CV-1|6}}.
- 1944 – World War II: U.S. Marines made a landing on Emirau Island in the Bismarck Archipelago to develop an airbase as part of Operation Cartwheel.
- 1987 – The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (chemical structure pictured) became the first treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for HIV/AIDS.
- 2014 – Taliban militants killed nine civilians in a mass shooting at the Kabul Serena Hotel in Afghanistan.
{{Born and died list| Maud Menten |b|1879| Willie Brown |b|1934| Fernando Torres |b|1984| Christel Boom |d|2004|}}
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