Top Historical Events That Happened on March 20

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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1469  Princess cecily of york: Princess cecily of york (d. 1507)   

1477  Jerome emser: German theologian   

1502  Pierino belli: Italian soldier and jurist   

1634  Balthasar bekker: Frisian theologist (examiner of comets)   

1644  Ivan mazepa: Cossack hetman of the hetmanate   

1680  Baron emanuele d' astorga: Italian composer (stabat mater)   

1725  Abdul hamid i: Ottoman sultan   

1728  Franciscus l kersteman: Dutch lawyer/astrologist   

0687  St. cuthbert: Patron saint of northumbria (b. c. 634).   

0842  Death of Alfonso ii the chaste: King of asturia (791-842),   

1191  Clement iii: [paolo scolari], pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades),   

1239  Death of Hermann von salza: Grand master of the teutonic knights (c. 1179)   

1351  Death of Mohammed ibn-tughluq: Sultan of delhi india,   

1393  Death of Johannes nepomucenus: [jan nepomucky], czech saint, killed   

1413  King henry iv of england: King henry iv of england (b. 1367)   

1415  Death of Henry iv bolingbroke: King of england (1399-1413),