Page 9: Historical Events In March - 20

1990  Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident on this day in history.   

1990  The Canadian government to pass law forcing financial institutions to keep records of large cash transactions; so criminals cannot launder money on March - 20.   

1990  On March - 20 jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90   

1991  Consumer and Corporate Affairs reports that personal and business bankruptcies reached their highest level ever; up 68% from 1990 on this day in history.   

1991  Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Disney on March - 20.   

1991  On March - 20 michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records   

1991  US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland on this day in history.   

1991  On March - 20 conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5   

1992  On this day in history janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set   

1992  On March - 20 noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses   

1992  Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93 on this day in history.   

1993  On this day in history iRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England   

1993  On this day in history morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs   

1993  On March - 20 claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85   

1994  On this day in history 14th Golden Raspberry Awards Indecent Proposal wins   

1994  Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X on this day in history.   

1994  El Salvador's first Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war on this day in history.   

1994  Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament on March - 20.   

1994  On March - 20 mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on first inn to win Logan Cup   

1994  Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna on this day in history.   

1994  Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa on this day in history.   

1994  14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins on this day in history.   

1995  Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, first Fab Four single in more than 30 years on this day in history.   

1995  On this day in history dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)   

1995  In Tokyo, Japan, at the height of the morning rush hour, five two-man terrorist teams from the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult, riding on separate subway trains, converge at the Kasumigaseki station and secretly release lethal sarin gas into the air on this day in history.   

1995  Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured on this day in history.   

1995  Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies on this day in history.   

1996  Erik &Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents on March - 20.   

1996  On this day in history uK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)   

1997  Tobacco company Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive on March - 20.   

2005  At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor on this day in history.   

2006  Tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in Queensland, Australia on this day in history.   

2012  On this day in history 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq   

2013  Pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics on this day in history.   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next Page »

1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

1469  On this day in history birth of princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)   

1477  On this day in history birth of jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)   

1502  Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575) was born on March - 20.   

1634  Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets) was born on March - 20.   

1644  Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709) was born on March - 20.   

1680  Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater) was born on March - 20.   

1725  On this day in history birth of abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)   

1728  On this day in history birth of franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist   

0687  Death of St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634) on this day in history.   

0842  On this day in history alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies   

1191  On March - 20 clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies   

1239  Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) on this day in history.   

1351  On this day in history mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies   

1393  On March - 20 death of johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed   

1413  On this day in history death of king Henry IV of England (b. 1367)   

1415  On March - 20 henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45