Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 20

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  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  An illustration from an 1880s edition of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
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  Douglas MacArthur
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  Cyclone Larry
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  Bust of Maximinus Thrax

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Blurb	Reason
March equinox (Template:Nowrap, 2019)	twelve citation-needed tags
; Independence Day in Tunisia (1956)	refimprove section
235 – Maximinus Thrax acceded to the throne of the Roman Empire as a so-called barracks emperor, who gained power by virtue of his command of the army.	Date not in article
1600 – Five advisers to Polish–Swedish king [[Sigismund III Vasa|Template:Nowrap Vasa]] were publicly executed, effectively ending his reign in Sweden.	unreferenced section
1602 – The Dutch East India Company—the first company to issue stock, one of the first multinational corporations, and possibly the first megacorporation—was established.	multiple issues
1815 – After escaping from exile in Elba, Napoleon entered Paris, beginning the period known as the Hundred Days.	Tagged for lack of citations
1848 – Due to the European Revolutions, King [[Ludwig I of Bavaria|Template:Nowrap of Bavaria]] abdicated in favour of his son, Maximilian.	refimprove
1854 – The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, by politicians opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States.	Neutrality disputed banner
1883 – Eleven countries signed the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, one of the first intellectual-property treaties.	Too much uncited
	Number landing not cited
1995 – The Aum Shinrikyo sect carried out a poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 people and injuring thousands of others with sarin.	refimprove
2003 – A U.S.-led coalition force invaded Iraq, beginning the Iraq War.	globalize
2006 – Cyclone Larry made landfall in Far North Queensland, eventually causing nearly Template:Nowrap in total damage and destroying over 80 percent of Australia's banana crop.	refimprove section
Ai Ogawa |d|2010	refimprove section

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• 1760 – A fire of unknown cause broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, destroying 349 buildings.
• 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, was published.
• 1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosted the opening of Pablo Picasso's first solo United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
• 1939 – Germany issued an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding the return of the Klaipėda Region under threat of invasion.
• 1942 – World War II: After being forced to flee the Philippines for Australia, US Army general Douglas MacArthur (pictured) announced: "I came through and I shall return."
• 1993 – The Troubles: Two children were killed by the second of two bomb attacks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Warrington, England.
• Born/died: | Wareru |b|1253| Maurice Csák |d|1336| Muhammad bin Tughluq |d|1351| [[Alexios III of Trebizond|Template:Nowrap of Trebizond]] |d|1390| Isaac Newton |d|1726/27| Adrienne Lecouvreur |d|1730|Benjamin Truman |d|1780| James Tod |b|1782| Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck |b|1870| Amanda Clement |b|1888| Abraham Beame |b|1906| Elisabeth Geleerd |b|1909| Mihajlo Petrović |d|1913| S. Arasaratnam |b|1930 Dorothy Campbell |d|1945| Amir Hamzah |d|1946| Zillur Rahman |d|2013| Eva Burrows |d|2015

Notes

• Napoleon's escape from Elba appears on February 26 so Hundred Days should not appear in the same year

March 20: Longtaitou Festival in China (2026); Nowruz (2025)Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1724 – Following the death of Pope Innocent XIII, a papal conclave convened in Rome to elect a new pope.
• 1861 – An earthquake occurred in the Argentine province of Mendoza, causing at least 6,000 deaths and destroying most of the buildings in the province's capital city.
• 1922 – The United States Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier, Template:USS.
• 1944 – World War II: U.S. Marines made a landing on Emirau Island in the Bismarck Archipelago to develop an airbase as part of Operation Cartwheel.
• 1987 – The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (chemical structure pictured) became the first treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for HIV/AIDS.
• 2014 – Taliban militants killed nine civilians in a mass shooting at the Kabul Serena Hotel in Afghanistan.