March 20, 2024

Discover the most significant events that have taken place on March 20 throughout history in this trivia video. From groundbreaking discoveries to notable accomplishments, this date has been filled with memorable moments. Watch and learn about the events that have shaped our world on March 20!

1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1774 The British parliament passes first of the Intolerable Acts: the Boston Port Act, which closed Boston harbor until colonists would pay for damages following the Boston Tea Party
1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in Boston
1854 1854 Republican Party formally organized in Ripon, Wisconsin Anti-slavery activists within the US Whig political party opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act form a new Republican Party; notable politicians who switched allegiance include Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison
1890 General Federation of Women's Clubs founded in the United States
1917 After the sinking of 3 more American merchant ships, US President Woodrow Wilson meets with cabinet, who agree that war is inevitable
1922 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's 1st aircraft carrier
1930 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded as Sanders Court & Café by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky
1942 General Douglas MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese-occupied Philippines
1944 2,500 women trample guards and floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store
1952 Final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan by US Senate
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1968 LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money
1976 American publishing heiress Patty Hearst convicted of armed robbery for her part in a 1974 California heist
1984 US Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
2003 A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires
2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour
2019 A woman who can smell Parkinson's disease has helped researchers identify molecules on the skin of people with the disease in Manchester, England
2019 The Walt Disney Company acquires Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox entertainment business for $71 billion
2023 UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says world has less than a decade to stop catastrophic warming: must reduce greenhouse gases by half by 2030, and cease adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by early 2050s
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