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, 475,248 hours 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.
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
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.
1883 –
The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
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.
1956 –
Tunisia gains independence from France.
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.
1985 –
Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1985 –
Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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.
1999 –
Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
Who were born on March 20?
1725 –
Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
1856 –
Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (d. 1915)
1906 –
Abraham Beame, American politician (d. 2001)
1917 –
Vera Lynn, English actress and singer
1933 –
Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
1935 –
Ted Bessell, American actor (d. 1996)
1961 –
Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer
1964 –
Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
1979 –
Bernard O'Connor, Gaelic Footballer
1991 –
Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
Who died on March 20?
1239 –
Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. c. 1179)
1673 –
Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)
1730 –
Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
1890 –
Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
1897 –
Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1899 –
Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
1931 –
Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
2007 –
Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
2008 –
Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
2010 –
Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (b. 1920)
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