Daily Calendar for March 20th, 2020

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• Born : Big Bird (character from Sesame Street)

• Born : Ovid (Roman poet, born in 43 B.C.)

1410s

• Died 1413: King Henry IV of England

1540s

• Died 1549: Sir Thomas Seymour (brother of Queen Jane, uncle to Prince Edward)

1720s

• Died 1727: Sir Isaac Newton (physicist)

1820s

• Born 1828: Henrik Ibsen (poet & playwright)

1830s

• Born 1834: Charles William Eliot (educator)

1850s

• 1852: Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published

1880s

• 1880: American Bell Telephone Co. was organized

1900s

• Born 1906: Ozzie Nelson (actor)

• Born 1908: Sir Michael Redgrave (actor)

1910s

• 1911: The first Farm Bureau in U.S. formed in Binghamton, N.Y.

• 1914: First U.S. figure skating championship in "international style" took place in New Haven, Connecticut

• Born 1918: Jack Barry (game show host)

1920s

• 1920: The first flight between England and South Africa was completed by Col. H.A. van Rejneveld and Maj. C.J. Brand of the South African Air Force

• Born 1922: Ray Goulding (comedian)

• Born 1922: Carl Reiner (actor & director)

• Born 1928: Fred Rogers (educator, minister, host of children's television show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)

1930s

• Born 1937: Jerry Reed (actor)

1940s

• 1945: British troops captured Japanese-held Mandalay (WWII)

• 1945: USS Midway launched, Newport News, Virginia

• Born 1948: Bobby Orr (hockey player)

1950s

• Born 1950: William Hurt (actor)

• Born 1950: Carl Palmer (musician)

• 1952: The peace treaty restoring Japanese sovereignty was ratified by U.S. Senate, ending American occupation of Japan

• Born 1958: Holly Hunter (actress)

1960s

• 1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in a civil ceremony in Gibraltar

1970s

• 1970: Communications satellite NATO 1 launched

1980s

• Born 1984: Christy Carlson Romano (actress)

• 1985: Libby Riddles of Teller, AK, became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Race, from Anchorage to Nome

2010s

• 2010: Skier Lauren Woolstencroft won her 5th gold medal of the Winter Paralympic Games

• 2012: A magnitude-7.6 earthquake located 120 miles east of Acapulco shook southern Mexico

• 2015: Total Eclipse of the Sun