03-20-2005, 07:20 AM
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March 20th
1602 ~ The Dutch East India Company was established.
1727 ~ Death of Sir Isaac Newton, Physicist.
1815 ~ Napoleon entered Paris after escaping from Elba with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1828 ~ Birthday of Henrik Ibsen, playwright and dramatist.
1852 ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.
1916 ~ Albert Einstein published his theory of General Relativity.
1928 ~ Birthday of Fred Rogers, children's television host.
1993 ~ A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children.
1995 ~ Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killed 12 and wounded 1300 persons.
2003 ~ 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
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