March 20: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.
2. 1760 - The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
3. 1815 - After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
4. 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
5. 1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
6. 1923 - The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
7. 1956 - Tunisia gains independence from France.
8. 1964 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed onJune 14, 1962.
9. 1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
10. 2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
11. Famous Birthdays: Ovid (Roman poet), Napoleon II (French emperor), B. F. Skinner (American psychologist and author), Alfonso García Robles (Mexican diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate), Lois Lowry (American author)

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