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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 20
- 100th: 1924 - Finnair begins scheduled flight of Helsinki-Tallinn.
- 100th: 1924 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) sweep Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) in two games.
- 90th: 1934 - A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen (and regent), dies at age 76.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Marion Conti; arch bishop (Aberdeen, England).
- 90th: 1934 - Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel, Germany.
- 80th: 1944 - Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River, New Jersey, killing 16.
- 80th: 1944 - Operation Anvil is cancelled. The plan was for a landing in south France simultaneously with the landing in north France.
- 80th: 1944 - Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes.
- 80th: 1944 - King Peter II of Yugoslavia marries Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark.
- 70th: 1954 - The King and I closes at Saint James Theater in New York City after 1246 performances.
- 70th: 1954 - 16th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76.
- 70th: 1954 - First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia, Pennsylvania).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Charlie Simmer in Ontario, Canada; NHL Left winger (Los Angeles Kings).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Jim Seales in Hamilton, Alabama, USA; singer (Shenandoah - "Sunday in the South").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Ruth Davidon in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; rower (Olympics-6th-1996).
- 60th: 1964 - Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at age 41.
- 60th: 1964 - European Space Research Organization established.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of P J Bogart in New York City, New York; diver (Olympics-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at age 62.
- 50th: 1974 - Edward Platt, actor (Chief - Get Smart), dies at age 58.
- 50th: 1974 - [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black US advocate in Virginia, dies at age 83.
- 40th: 1984 - US Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Fernando Torres, Spanish football player (Liverpool F.C.).
- 30th: 1994 - 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins.
- 30th: 1994 - El Salvador's first Presidential election following 12-year civil war.
- 30th: 1994 - Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament.
- 30th: 1994 - Mashonaland U-24 beats Matabeleland on first inning to win Logan Cup.
- 30th: 1994 - Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship.
- 30th: 1994 - Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa.
- 25th: 1999 - Serbs launch an offensive in Kosovo.
- 20th: 2004 - President Chen Shui-bian wins the Taiwanese presidential election by 0.2 percent of the vote.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Juliana, Queen Mother of the Netherlands (born 1909).
- 15th: 2009 - A 7.9 magnitude earthquake about 200km south-east of Tonga triggers a tsunami in the South Pacific, but little damage results.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Abdellatif Filali, 13th Prime Minister of Morocco (born 1928).
- 5th: 2019 - Europe's antitrust regulators fine Google 1.49 billion euros (US$1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business.
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