Top Historical Events That Happened on March 20 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1994  In this year, Laura Davies claims LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament   

1994  Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on inaugural inn to win Logan Cup   

1994  Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna   

1994  Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa.   

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

1995  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   

1995  Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4700 injured.   

1995  Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 and 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies   

1996  Erik and Lyle Menendez are discovered guilty of killing their parents.   

1996  UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)   

1997  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   

2006  Tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in Queensland, Australia   

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

2013  In this year, Pierre Deligne claims the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics   

2017  Indian rivers Yamuna and the Ganges declared "living entities" by court in the state of Uttarakhand   

2018  Actress Cynthia Nixon announces she will run for New York Governor.   

2018  Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House   

2019  The Walt Disney Company acquires Rupert Murdoch 's 21st Century Fox entertainment business for $71 billion   

2019  Europe's antitrust regulators fine Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business. The ruling brings to nearly $10 billion the fines imposed against Google by the European Union   

2019  Disney acquires the rights to 21st Century Fox leaving out a few assets to be spun-off to the newly formed Fox Corporation.   

2020  After 20 years with the New England Patriots, six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady officially agrees to move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a 2-year $50m guaranteed deal   

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 10000 as the total number of cases reaches a quarter of a million   

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] Bhadla Solar Park is commissioned and is recorded as becoming world's largest solar park   

2021  Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan announces his country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, the inaugural country to do so   

2023  In this year, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the synthesis report of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change.   

2024  British singer-songwriter Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin receive Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the White House in Washington, D.C   

2024  Vaughan Gething confirmed as Welsh new inaugural minister and the inaugural black leader of a national government in Europe [1]   

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