In the Curragh incident, over 100 British Army officers threaten to resign if ordered to march against the Ulster Volunteers. Date: March 20, 1914 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1914 📅 On This Day (Today)
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. Date: March 20, 1916 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1916 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Upper Silesia plebiscite, mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland, is held. Date: March 20, 1921 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1921 📅 On This Day (Today)
The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. Date: March 20, 1922 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1922 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States. Date: March 20, 1923 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1923 📅…
Chiang Kai-shek initiates a purge of communist elements within the National Revolutionary Army in Guangzhou. Date: March 20, 1926 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1926 📅 On This Day (Today)
Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appoints Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant. Date: March 20, 1933 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1933 📅 On This Day (Today)
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". Date: March 20, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1942…
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. Date: March 20, 1948 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1948 📅 On This Day (Today)
Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded. Date: March 20, 1951 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 1951 📅 On This Day (Today)