March 20

1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings, as well as several ships in port, leaving over 1ooo people homeless. but with no reported deaths.

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.

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.

1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.

1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property – still in force – is signed…….in Paris.

1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

1922 – CV-1, the USS Langley is commissioned as the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.

1933 – As Chief of Police of Munich, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler orders the creation of Dachau concentration camp.

1952 – The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.

1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135 mile long Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which commemorates the the 1925 diphtheria antitoxin serum dog sled run from Anchorage to Nome.

1995 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 people and injuring over 6,200 more.

2003 – Under authority of The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, passed by Congress in October, U.S. and Allied ground forces invade Iraq, due to the reports of violations of the 1991 ceasefire agreement.

2015 – The Northern Hemisphere Vernal Equinox, a Solar Eclipse, and a Perigee Syzygy “Supermoon” all occur on the same day.