Wednesday March 20, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

March 20: Day of the Week

March 20, 2024 was the 80th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 286 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

March 20 Historical Event(s)

1208
Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1916
Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1933
Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida’s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942
World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: “I came out of Bataan and I shall return”.
1951
Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
1974
Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
1988
Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1993
An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.
1995
A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
2005
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.

Who were born on March 20?

1469
Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507)
1914
Wendell Corey, American actor (d. 1968)
1915
Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian politician, President (1974-1986) (d. 2000)
1915
Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist (d. 1997)
1921
Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian resistance fighter, philosopher and literary historian (d. 1977)
1937
Lois Lowry, American children’s author
1943
Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer
1961
Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer
1969
Jean Labonté, Canadian sledge hockey player
1985
Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player

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