Page 9: Historical Events In March - 20

1990  On March - 20 singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident   

1990  On this day in history the Canadian government to pass law forcing financial institutions to keep records of large cash transactions; so criminals cannot launder money   

1990  On this day in history jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90   

1991  On March - 20 consumer and Corporate Affairs reports that personal and business bankruptcies reached their highest level ever; up 68% from 1990.   

1991  Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in contract violation suit against Disney on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history michael Jackson signs $65M six album deal with Sony records   

1991  US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5   

1992  On March - 20 janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set   

1992  Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses on this day in history.   

1992  Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93 on this day in history.   

1993  IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England on March - 20.   

1993  Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs on March - 20.   

1993  Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 on March - 20.   

1994  On this day in history 14th Golden Raspberry Awards Indecent Proposal wins   

1994  On March - 20 brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X   

1994  El Salvador's first Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war on March - 20.   

1994  Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on first inn to win Logan Cup   

1994  Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna on this day in history.   

1994  Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa on March - 20.   

1994  On this day in history 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins   

1995  Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, first Fab Four single in more than 30 years on March - 20.   

1995  Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record) on this day in history.   

1995  On March - 20 in Tokyo, Japan, at the height of the morning rush hour, five two-man terrorist teams from the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult, riding on separate subway trains, converge at the Kasumigaseki station and secretly release lethal sarin gas into the air   

1995  Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured on March - 20.   

1995  Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies on March - 20.   

1996  Erik &Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents on this day in history.   

1996  UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease) on this day in history.   

1997  On this day in history tobacco company Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive   

2005  At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor on March - 20.   

2006  On March - 20 tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in Queensland, Australia.   

2012  50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq on this day in history.   

2013  Pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics on this day in history.   

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1469  Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507) was born on this day in history.   

1477  On March - 20 birth of jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)   

1502  Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575) was born on this day in history.   

1634  Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets) was born on this day in history.   

1644  On March - 20 birth of ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)   

1680  On March - 20 birth of baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)   

1725  On March - 20 birth of abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)   

1728  On March - 20 birth of franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist   

0687  Death of St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634) on this day in history.   

0842  Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies on this day in history.   

1191  On this day in history clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies   

1239  Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) on this day in history.   

1351  On this day in history mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies   

1393  On March - 20 death of johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed   

1413  On this day in history death of king Henry IV of England (b. 1367)   

1415  On this day in history henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45