{"id":19202,"date":"2020-03-20T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T06:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=19202"},"modified":"2020-03-19T17:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T11:43:02","slug":"history-of-20-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-20-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 20 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 20 March<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled unanimously that employers could not exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage a fetus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0forgave $2 billion in loans to Poland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> &#8211; Janice Pennington was awarded $1.3 million for accident on the set of the &#8220;Price is Right&#8221; TV show.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared emergency rule. He set a referendum on whether the people trusted him or the hard-line Congress to govern.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; An Irish Republican Army bomb was detonated in Warrington, England. A 3-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy were killed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; About 35,000 Turkish troops crossed the northern border of Iraq in pursuit of the separatist rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; In Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others were sickened when packages containing the nerve gas Sarin was released on five separate subway trains. The terrorists belonged to a doomsday cult in Japan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; In Los Angeles, Erik and Lyle Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of their parents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong> &#8211; The U.K. announced that humans could catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease).<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; Brian Grazer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1997<\/strong> &#8211; Liggett Group, the maker of Chesterfield cigarettes, settled 22 state lawsuits by admitting the industry marketed cigarettes to teenagers and agreed to warn on every pack that smoking is addictive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; India&#8217;s new Hindu nationalist-led government pledges to &#8220;exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first men to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. The non-stop trip began on March 3 and covered 26,500 miles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; Legoland California opened Carlsbad, California.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap Brown, was captured following a shootout that left a sherriff&#8217;s deputy dead.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Actress Pamela Anderson disclosed that she had hepatitis C.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2002<\/strong> &#8211; Arthur Andersen pled innocent to charges that it had shredded documents and deleted computer files related to the energy company Enron.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; Cisco Systems Inc. announced it was buying The Linksys Group INc. for $500 million in stock.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong> &#8211; U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong> &#8211; Europe&#8217;s antitrust regulators fined Google $1.7 billion for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong> &#8211; Disney acquired the rights to 21st Century Fox. Fox Corporation was formed with the remaining assets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and pianist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ayumi Kinoshita, Japanese actress and model<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Koutaro Tanaka, Japanese actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dominik Werling, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matt Deis, American bass player and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Otylia J\u0119drzejczak, Polish swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Janeth Jepkosgei, Kenyan runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Hanna-Maria Sepp\u00e4l\u00e4, Finnish swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Michael Bumpus, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Laurence Leboeuf, Canadian actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rickie Fowler, American golfer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Olly Lancashire, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0James Tamou, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hellen Onsando Obiri, Kenyan runner<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ben Ridge, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0S\u00e9nah Mango, Togolese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Aaron Telitz, American race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 20 March 1991 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled unanimously that employers could not exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage a fetus. 1991 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0forgave $2 billion in loans to Poland. 1992 &#8211; Janice Pennington was awarded $1.3 million for accident on the set of the &#8220;Price is Right&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1093,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-19202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-20-march","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4ZI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19234,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19202\/revisions\/19234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}