Page 9: Historical Events In March - 20

1990  On March - 20 singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident   

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 this day in history jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90   

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

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  US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland on this day in history.   

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 March - 20.   

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

1992  On March - 20 avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93   

1993  IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England on March - 20.   

1993  Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs on March - 20.   

1993  On this day in history claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85   

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

1994  Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X on this day in history.   

1994  On March - 20 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 March - 20 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 March - 20.   

1994  Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa on this day in history.   

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  Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record) on this day in history.   

1995  On this day in history 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, 4,700 injured on March - 20.   

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

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  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 March - 20 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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1502  On this day in history birth of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)   

1634  On this day in history birth of balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets)   

1644  Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709) was born on this day in history.   

1680  Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater) was born on March - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

0687  Death of St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634) on this day in history.   

0842  On March - 20 alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies   

1191  On March - 20 clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies   

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

1351  Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies on March - 20.   

1393  Death of Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed on this day in history.   

1413  Death of King Henry IV of England (b. 1367) on March - 20.   

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