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 79th 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, 1,742,428,800 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 ‘heptacontaenneagon’ 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 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.
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March 20 Historical Events
- 1208 –Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1760 –The “Great Fire” of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
- 1888 –The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
- 1933 –Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida’s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 1951 –Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
- 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.
- 1993 –An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.
- 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.
Who were born on March 20?
- 1469 –Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)
- 1903 –Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1933 –Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
- 1950 –Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
- 1954 –Paul Mirabella, American baseball player
- 1959 –Dave Beasant, English football goalkeeper
- 1960 –Norm Magnusson, American fine artist
- 1968 –A. J. Jacobs, American journalist and author
- 1973 –Cedric Yarbrough, American actor
- 1979 –Bianca Lawson, American actress
Who died on March 20?
- 1568 –Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)
- 1730 –Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
- 1849 –James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and novelist (b. 1780)
- 1874 –Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)
- 1934 –Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858)
- 1958 –Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian politician (b. 1915)
- 1969 –Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
- 1970 –Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (b. 1920)
- 2001 –Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)
- 2008 –Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1921)
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