Page 9: Historical Events In March - 20

1990  Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident on March - 20.   

1990  The Canadian government to pass law forcing financial institutions to keep records of large cash transactions; so criminals cannot launder money on March - 20.   

1990  Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90 on this day in history.   

1991  On March - 20 consumer and Corporate Affairs reports that personal and business bankruptcies reached their highest level ever; up 68% from 1990.   

1991  Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Disney on this day in history.   

1991  Michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records on March - 20.   

1991  On this day in history uS forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland   

1991  On this day in history conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5   

1992  Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set on this day in history.   

1992  On this day in history noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses   

1992  Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93 on this day in history.   

1993  On March - 20 iRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England   

1993  Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs on this day in history.   

1993  Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history 14th Golden Raspberry Awards Indecent Proposal wins   

1994  On March - 20 brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X   

1994  On this day in history el Salvador's first Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war   

1994  On March - 20 laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament   

1994  On this day in history mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on first inn to win Logan Cup   

1994  Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa   

1994  14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins on this day in history.   

1995  Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, first Fab Four single in more than 30 years on this day in history.   

1995  Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record) on March - 20.   

1995  On March - 20 in Tokyo, Japan, at the height of the morning rush hour, five two-man terrorist teams from the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult, riding on separate subway trains, converge at the Kasumigaseki station and secretly release lethal sarin gas into the air   

1995  On this day in history poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured   

1995  Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies on this day in history.   

1996  On this day in history erik &Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents   

1996  UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease) on this day in history.   

1997  Tobacco company Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive on this day in history.   

2005  On March - 20 at least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.   

2006  On this day in history tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in Queensland, Australia.   

2012  On this day in history 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq   

2013  On March - 20 pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics   

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1469  On March - 20 birth of princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)   

1477  Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527) was born on March - 20.   

1502  Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575) was born on this day in history.   

1634  Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets) was born on March - 20.   

1644  On this day in history birth of ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)   

1680  On March - 20 birth of baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)   

1725  On this day in history birth of abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)   

1728  Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist was born on March - 20.   

0687  On this day in history death of st. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).   

0842  On this day in history alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies   

1191  On this day in history clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies   

1239  Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) on March - 20.   

1351  On March - 20 mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies   

1393  On March - 20 death of johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed   

1413  On this day in history death of king Henry IV of England (b. 1367)   

1415  Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45 on this day in history.