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Today in History: March 20

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6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1739
In India, Nadir Shah of Persia occupies Delhi and takes possession of the Peacock throne.

1760
The Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.

1792
In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approves the use of the guillotine.

1841
Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, considered the first detective story, is published.

1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

1918
The Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union ask for American aid to rebuild their army.

1933
Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed

1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson orders 4,000 troops to protect the Selma-Montgomery civil rights marchers.

1976
Patty Hearst is convicted of armed robbery.

1987
The United State approves AZT, a drug that is proven to slow the progress of AIDS.

2003
A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires

2020
India hangs four men for 2012 gang rape and murder of woman on a bus in New Delhi, country's first hanging since 2013

2021
Overseas spectators will not be allowed to attend the Tokyo Summer Olympics due to the pandemic Japanese organizers confirm

2024
New rule limiting tailpipe pollution, aimed at greatly expanding electric vehicles in the US is announced by President Joe Biden

Born on March 20

1925
John Ehrlichman, White House advisor to President Nixon.

1928
Fred Rogers, television performer (Mr. Roger's Neighborhood).

JOTD

This shutdown is bad for everyone in the service industry, but it especially sucks for men

We're losing $1 for every $.79 women are losing




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