What happened on March 20th?

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1602 Dutch East India Company founded Learn more..
  125 years
1727 Sir Isaac Newton dies in London Learn more..
  73 years
1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London Learn more..
  15 years
1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule Learn more..
  13 years
1828 Playwright Henrik Ibsen, often called the father of realism, is born in Skien, Norway Learn more..
  24 years
1852 American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published in book form Learn more..
1854 A meeting of Whigs, anti-Nebraska Democrats, and Free-Soilers in Ripon, proposed the formation of what became the U.S. Republican Party Learn more..
  50 years
1904 Pioneer of the theory of behaviourism, American psychologist B.F. Skinner was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Learn more..
  12 years
1916 Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was first published as an academic paper in Annalen der Physik, Learn more..
  33 years
1949 The Deutsche Mark is made the only legal tender in western sectors of Berlin Learn more..
1956 Tunisia achieve independence from France Learn more..
1966 The football World Cup is stolen while on exhibition in London Learn more..
1969 John Lennon marries Japanese artist and musician Yoko Ono in Gibraltar Learn more..
1974 Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips escape an apparent kidnap attempt Learn more..
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is convicted of armed robbery and use of a gun to commit a felony Learn more..
  19 years
1995 A nerve gas attack occurred on the Tokyo subway system during rush hour resulting in 12 persons killed and 5,000 injured Learn more..
1998 The government of Botswana announces the completion of the Trans-Kalihari Highway; the first direct link between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans across Africa Learn more..
  22 years
2020 American country music singer Kenny Rogers, whose numerous hits included Lady and The Gambler, dies at age 81 Learn more..
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