Sunday 20 March 2011

On This Day - 20th March


1904 - B.F. Skinner born
1906 - Ozzie Nelson born
1922 - Carl Reiner born
1928 - Fred "Mr." Rogers born
1929 - Marshal Foch dies
1931 - Hal Linden born
1933 - Dachau concentration camp opened
1937 - Lois Lowry born
1945 - Pat Riley born
1950 - William Hurt born
1957 - Spike Lee born
1958 - Holly Hunter born
1966 - The Jules Rimet trophy, footballs World Cup is stolen while on exhibition in London.
1974 - Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips escape an apparent kidnap attempt.

1976 - Chester Bennington born
1989 - Two senior RUC officers negotiating cross-border security co-operation in south Armagh are ambushed and shot dead by the IRA.
1993 - Two boys die and 56 people are injured as two IRA bombs explode in the centre of Warrington.
2003 - American missiles hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein.

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