20 Mairch

The **20t o Mairch** is the 79t day o the year (80t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 286 days ti come.

## Events

* 1413 - Henry V o Ingland becomes King.
* 1498 - Portuguese seafarer Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut in the sooth o Indie.
* 1602 - The Dutch East Indie Company is foondit.
* 1852 - The novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" bi Harriet Beecher Stowe is published.
* 1861 - A major yirdquauk kills ower 6,000 fowk in Mendoza, Argentinae.
* 1890 - Leo von Caprivi replaces Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor o Germany.
* 1908 - A rebiggit version o the Reykjanesviti, Iceland's auldest lichthoose, comes intae use.
* 1913 - Passenger steamer "Koombana" sinks in a cyclone aff Wastren Australie, killin 138 fowk.
* 1915 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory o relativity.
* 1956 - Tunisie gains unthirldom frae Fraunce.
* 1966 - The FIFA Warld Cup trophy is stolen in Ingland.
* 1995 - The Aum Shinrikyo cult carries oot the Tokyo Sarin Gas attack, killin 13 fowk.
* 2003 - The US/UK-led invasion o Iraq stairts.
* 2015 - Solar eclipse o Mairch 20, 2015: A solar eclipse is seen ower maist o Europe (incluidin Scotland), Northwast Asie, North Africae an the North Atlantic Ocean. Totality is ower the Faroe Islands an Svalbard.
* 2015 - Bomb attacks in Yemen kill ower 100 fowk. 
* 2016 - US Preses Barack Obama stairts a historic visit tae Cuba.

## Births

* 43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
* 1142 - Malcolm IV o Scotland (d. 1165)
* 1811 - Napoleon II o Fraunce (d. 1832)
* 1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norse playwricht an poet (d. 1906)
* 1875 - Jessie M. King, Scots illustrator (d. 1949)
* 1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist, inventor an social philosopher (d. 1990)
* 1917 - Vera Lynn, Inglis sangster
* 1922 - Carl Reiner, American actor an film director
* 1939 - Brian Mulroney, 18t Prime meenister o Canadae
* 1945 - Tim Yeo, Inglish politeecian
* 1948 - John de Lancie, American actor, comedian an sangster
* 1950 - William Hurt, American actor
* 1956 - Catherine Ashton, Inglis politeecian
* 1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
* 1958 - Holly Hunter, American actress
* 1969 - Yvette Cooper, Breetish politeecian
* 1973 - Chris Stephens, Scots politeecian
* 1976 - Chester Bennington, American sangster (Linkin Park) (d. 2017)
* 1979 - Freema Agyeman, Breetish actress
* 1984 - Fernando Torres, Spainyie fitbawer
* 1986 - Kirsty Blackman, Scots politeecian
* 1991 - Lucie Jones, Welsh sangster, actress an model
* 1993 - Sloane Stephens, American tennis player

## Daiths
* 1413 - Henry IV o Ingland (b. 1367)
* 1894 - Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian naitional hero (b. 1802)
* 1936 - Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Scots politeecian, writer, jurnalist an adventurer (b. 1852)
* 1990 - Lev Yashin, Roushie fitbawer (b. 1929)
* 1993 - Polykarp Kusch, German pheesicist (b. 1911)
* 2004 - Queen Juliana o the Netherlands (b. 1909)
* 2013 - Zillur Rahman, Preses o Bangladesh (b. 1929)
* 2015 - Malcolm Fraser, 22nt Prime Meenister o Australie (b. 1930)
* 2017 - David Rockefeller, American banker, businessman an philanthropist (b. 1915)

## Halidays

* Northren Ware Equinox
* Soothren Hairst Equinox
* Nowruz (Iranian Ne'er's Day)
* Baha'i Ne'er's Day
* Independence Day (Tunisie)
* Warld Francophone Day
* UN French leid Day
* Internaitional Day o Happiness