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Events

• 1815 (211 years ago) After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
• 1888 (138 years ago) The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
• 1916 (110 years ago) Albert Einstein submits his paper, "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity", which establishes his general theory of relativity, to the journal Annalen der Physik.
• 1921 (105 years ago) The Upper Silesia plebiscite, mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland, is held.
• 1942 (84 years ago) 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".
• 1956 (70 years ago) Tunisia gains independence from France.
• 2006 (20 years ago) Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby.
• 2012 (14 years ago) At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.

Births

• 43 BC Ovid, Roman poet (died 17)
• 1811 (215 years ago) Napoleon II, French emperor (died 1832)
• 1828 (198 years ago) Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (died 1906)
• 1904 (122 years ago) B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (died 1990)
• 1928 (98 years ago) Fred Rogers, American television host and author
• 1948 (78 years ago) John de Lancie, American actor
• 1976 (50 years ago) Chester Bennington, American singer and songwriter (died 2017)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer

Deaths

• 1191 (835 years ago) Pope Clement III,
• 1413 (613 years ago) Henry IV of England,
• 1894 (132 years ago) Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (born 1802)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (born 1851)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (born 1929)
• 1993 (33 years ago) Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Juliana of the Netherlands,
• 2020 (6 years ago) Kenny Rogers, American singer (born 1938)

All 408 events, births and deaths of March 20