1900<\/strong> – It was announced that European powers had agreed to keep China’s doors open to trade.<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong> – France and Russia acknowledged the Anglo-Japanese alliance. They also asserted their right to protect their interests in China and Korea.<\/p>\n 1903<\/strong> – In Paris, paintings by Henri Matisse were shown at the “Salon des Independents”.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – In Russia, army officers mutiny at Sevastopol.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – The National Squash Tennis Association was formed in New York City.<\/p>\n 1914<\/strong> – The first international figure skating championship was held in New Haven, CT.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – The French called off the Champagne offensive on the Western Front.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union asked for American aid to rebuild their army.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – U.S. President Warren G. Harding ordered U.S. troops back from the Rhineland.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – The USS Langley<\/i> was commissioned. It was the first aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, made the first flight to South America on the regular schedule.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The first German concentration camp was completed at Dachau.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – Rudolf Kuhnold gave a demonstration of radar in Kiel Germany.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The British Royal Air Force conducted an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – The Allies attacked Field Marshall Erwin Rommel’s forces on the Mareth Line in North Africa.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – A blue whale weighing 180-metric tons was caught in the South Atlantic.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate ratified a peace treaty with Japan.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Mount Bezymianny on the Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) exploded.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Tunisia gained independence from France.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – The first “Pop Art” exhibit began in New York City.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – The ESRO (European Space Research Organization) was established.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – Twiggy arrived in the U.S. for a one-week stay.<\/p>\n 1969<\/strong> – U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy called on the U.S. to close all bases in Taiwan.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – 19 mountain climbers were killed on Japan’s Mount Fuji during an avalanche.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her role in the hold up of a San Francisco Bank.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – The U.S. made an appeal to the International Court concerning the American Hostages in Iran.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron was sentenced to eight years in a convent.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – U.S. scientists’ returned from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – For the first time in its 99-year history, Avon representatives received a salary. Up to that time they had been paid solely on commissions.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – CBS-TV presented “The Romance of Betty Boop.”<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Libby Riddles won the 1,135-mile Anchorage-to-Nome dog race becoming the first woman to win the Iditarod.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Fallon Carrington and Jeff Colby were wed on the TV drama “The Colby\u2019s”. “The Colby\u2019s” was an offshoot of “Dynasty”.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AZT. The drug was proven to slow the progress of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – A Washington, DC, district court judge blocked a curfew imposed by Mayor Barry and the City Council.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – In Belfast, two policemen were killed. The IRA claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – It was announced that Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose was under investigation.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The Los Angeles Lakers retired Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s #33.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Namibia became an independent nation ending 75 years of South African rule.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Imelda Marcos, the widow of ex-Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, went on trial for racketeering, embezzlement, and bribery.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – In Rumania, tanks were sent to the town of Tirgu Mures to quell ethnic riots.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that employers could not exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage a fetus.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The U.S. forgave $2 billion in loans to Poland.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Janice Pennington was awarded $1.3 million for the accident on the set of the “Price is Right” TV show.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared emergency rule. He set a referendum on whether the people trusted him or the hard-line Congress to govern.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – An Irish Republican Army bomb was detonated in Warrington, England. A 3-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy were killed.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – About 35,000 Turkish troops crossed the northern border of Iraq in pursuit of the separatist rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – In Los Angeles, Erik and Lyle Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of their parents.<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – The U.K. announced that humans could catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease).<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Brian Grazer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – India’s new Hindu nationalist-led government pledges to “exercise the option to induct nuclear weapons.”<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Bertrand 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.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Legoland California opened Carlsbad, California.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap Brown, was captured following a shootout that left a sheriff’s deputy dead.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Actress Pamela Anderson disclosed that she had hepatitis C.<\/p>\n 2002 – Arthur Andersen pled innocent to charges that it had shredded documents and deleted computer files related to the energy company Enron.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Cisco Systems Inc. announced it was buying The Linksys Group Inc. for $500 million in stock.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait.<\/p>\n 2006 <\/strong>\u2013 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss D\u00e9by.<\/p>\n 2012 <\/strong>\u2013 At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> \u2013 Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> \u2013 A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of 20 March 1900 – It was announced that European powers had agreed to keep China’s doors open to trade. 1902 – France and Russia acknowledged the Anglo-Japanese alliance. 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