doug.hall said:
... too true.Not an ex yet but heading that way. However she keeps hanging in there by refering to 20th March (type it into Google) - how can I break up yet......
What's so special about that day?
* 1413 Henry V becomes King of England.
* 1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
* 1739 Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
* 1760 The "Great Fire" of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
* 1815 Napoleon enters 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.
* 1848 King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
* 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
* 1856 Costa Rican troops rout Walker's soldiers
* 1883 Signature of Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
* 1899 At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
* 1904 Aleister Crowley invokes Horus in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as the Aeon Of The Crowned And Conquering Child.
* 1913 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
* 1914 In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.
* 1916 Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.
* 1922 The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
* 1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
* 1942 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".
* 1948 With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
* 1952 The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
* 1956 Tunisia gains independence from France.
* 1964 The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
* 1965 In Naples, Italy, France Gall wins the tenth Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg singing "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" (Wax doll, talking doll).
* 1966 The World Cup is stolen from Central Hall, London
* 1969 In Gibraltar, John Lennon and Yoko Ono get married.
* 1974 A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
* 1976 Patty Hearst is found guilty of the armed robbery of a San Francisco, California bank.
* 1979 REXX programming language created
* 1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.
* 1986 Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France
* 1987 The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.
* 1990 Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
* 1993 A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children.
* 1995 Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway killing 12 and wounding 1300 persons.
* 1996 In Los Angeles, California, Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.
* 2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.
* 2003 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
* 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.
