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  On March - 20 jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90   

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 March - 20.   

1991  Michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records on this day in history.   

1991  On March - 20 uS forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland   

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

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

1992  Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses on this day in history.   

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

1993  IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England on this day in history.   

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  El Salvador's first Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war on this day in history.   

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

1994  Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on first inn to win Logan Cup on March - 20.   

1994  Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna on March - 20.   

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

1994  On March - 20 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins   

1995  On March - 20 beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, first Fab Four single in more than 30 years   

1995  On this day in history dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)   

1995  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 on this day in history.   

1995  Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured on this day in history.   

1995  Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies on March - 20.   

1996  Erik &Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents on this day in history.   

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

1997  On March - 20 tobacco company Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive   

2005  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 on March - 20.   

2006  Tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in Queensland, Australia on this day in history.   

2012  On March - 20 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq   

2013  Pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics on this day in history.   

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1469  Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507) was born on this day in history.   

1477  Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527) was born on this day in history.   

1502  On March - 20 birth of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)   

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

1644  On March - 20 birth of ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)   

1680  Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater) was born on this day in history.   

1725  On March - 20 birth of abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)   

1728  Franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist was born on this day in history.   

0687  On March - 20 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  Clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies on March - 20.   

1239  On this day in history death of hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)   

1351  On this day in history mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies   

1393  Death of Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed on March - 20.   

1413  Death of King Henry IV of England (b. 1367) on this day in history.   

1415  On March - 20 henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45