The Phenomenon of March 20: A Day Filled with Surprises and Celebrations Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1921  Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general (UNESCO).   

1922  USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's 1st aircraft Carrier.   

1922  Arnold Burgen, college president (Academia Europaea)   

1923  Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA   

1923  Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent.   

1924  Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn   

1925  James Pickles, judge.   

1925  George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66.   

1926  Ted Bessell, Flushing NY, actor (Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer Pyle).   

1928  Fred Rogers, childrens show (Mr Rogers Neighborhood)   

1929  British Columbia Telephone Company sets up subsidiary, North-West Telephone Company, the world's inaugural radiotelephone company   

1929  Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77   

1930  Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph.   

1931  Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin.   

1932  Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR is recorded as becoming Kara-Kalpak ASSR   

1933  Dachau, inaugural concentration camp, completed.   

1933  Establishment of the inaugural concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Dachau.   

1933  Dachau, 1st concentration camp, completed   

1933  Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR.   

1934  Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany   

1934  Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany   

1934  A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen ( and regent), dies at 76.   

1935  "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio.   

1936  Durant Clifford Parkin, cricketer (Tests for S Afr 1891-92), dies.   

1937  Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain   

1939  7000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania   

1939  Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King tells Parliament that Canada will consider any attack on Britain as an attack on the Commonwealth   

1940  Paul Reynoud is recorded as becoming French premier.   

1941  Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn.   

1941  D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies.   

1942  Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia.   

1942  General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"   

1942  Major German assault on Malta.   

1942  Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41   

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