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| March 20th |
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| About March 20th is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 286 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. March 20th is World Storytelling Day. Births 1908 - Frank Stanton, former CBS president 1922 - Carl Reiner, director, producer, writer 1928 - Fred Rogers, educator (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) 1936 - Vaughn Meader, comedian, impersonator (The First Family) 1948 - Bobby Orr, Hall of Fame hockey player 1957 - Spike Lee, director, writer, producer (Malcolm X) 1963 - Kathy Ireland, model, actress, designer 1984 - Christy Carlson Romano, actress (Even Stevens) Deaths 1918 - Lewis A. Grant, U.S. Civil War soldier, Medal of Honor recipient 1995 - Big John Studd, professional wrestler 2010 - Stewart Udall, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Events 1760 - Nearly 350 buildings are destroyed in the "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts. 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin gets published. 1914 - The first international figure skating championship is held in New Haven, Connecticut . 1916 - The general theory of relativity is published by Albert Einstein. 1922 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. 1933 - Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida for the fatal shooting death Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt on President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1952 - A peace treaty with Japan is ratified by the U.S. Senate. 1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono get married. 1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first female to achieve victory in the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. 1999 - Legoland California opens in Carlsbad, California, becoming the only Legoland outside of Europe. 2003 - The U.S. invasion of Iraq begins in the early hours of the morning as the U.S. and allied countries begin military operations in Iraq. |
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