Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
March 20
| 1413 | Henry IV of England is succeed by his son Henry V. | |
| 1739 | In India, Nadir Shah of Persia occupies Delhi and takes possession of the Peacock throne. | |
| 1760 | The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings. | |
| 1792 | In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approves the use of the guillotine. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris and begins his 100-day rule. | |
| 1841 | Edgar Allen Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered the first detective story, is published. | |
| 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. | |
| 1906 | Army officers in Russia mutiny at Sevastopol. | |
| 1915 | The French call off the Champagne offensive on the Western Front. | |
| 1918 | The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union ask for American aid to rebuild their army. | |
| 1922 | President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. troops back from the Rhineland. | |
| 1932 | The German dirigible, Graf Zepplin, makes the first flight to South America on regular schedule. | |
| 1939 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt names William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court. | |
| 1940 | The British Royal Air Force conducts an all-night air raid on the Nazi airbase at Sylt, Germany. | |
| 1943 | The Allies attack Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's forces on the Mareth Line in North Africa. | |
| 1965 | President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers. | |
| 1969 | Senator Edward Kennedy calls on the United States to close all bases in Taiwan. | |
| 1976 | Patty Hearst is convicted of armed robbery. | |
| 1982 | U.S. scientists return from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there. | |
| 1987 | The United State approves AZT, a drug that is proven to slow the progress of AIDS. | |
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Born on March 20 |
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| 43BC | Ovid, Roman poet. | |
| 1811 | Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Reichstadt. | |
| 1828 | Henrik Isben, Norwegian dramatist (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler). | |
| 1904 | B.F. Skinner, American psychologist. | |
| 1917 | Dame Vera Lynn , British singer. | |
| 1922 | Raymond Walter Goulding, Radio comedian of Bob and Ray fame. | |
| 1925 | John Ehrlichman, White House advisor to President Nixon. | |
| 1928 | Fred Rogers, television performer (Mr. Roger's Neighborhood). | |
| 1957 | Shelton 'Spike' Lee, film director (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X). | |
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