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 79^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 7, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 484,008 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 ‘heptacontaenneagon’ 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 334 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 4,472 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 20 Historical Events

• 235 –
  Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
• 1600 –
  The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
• 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.
• 1852 –
  Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
• 1861 –
  An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
• 1923 –
  The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso’s first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
• 1933 –
  Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida’s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 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.
• 1952 –
  The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
• 2006 –
  Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country’s banana crop.

Who were born on March 20?

• 1905 –
  Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949)
• 1915 –
  Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian politician, President (1974-1986) (d. 2000)
• 1918 –
  Jack Barry, American TV host (d. 1984)
• 1954 –
  Paul Mirabella, American baseball player
• 1961 –
  Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats)
• 1963 –
  David Thewlis, British actor
• 1972 –
  Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
• 1976 –
  Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park)
• 1984 –
  Marcus Vick, American football player
• 1985 –
  Morgan Amalfitano, French footballer

Who died on March 20?

• 1390 –
  Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1338)
• 1568 –
  Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)
• 1878 –
  Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1899 –
  Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
• 1918 –
  Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
• 1934 –
  Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858)
• 1964 –
  Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and author (b. 1923)
• 1983 –
  Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
• 1992 –
  Georges Delerue, French film composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 –
  Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)