Important Events From This day in History – 20 March

Today in History

• 2003 The United States invade Iraq, assisted by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland

  The Iraq War, which then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called illegal, killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

• 1995 Japanese terrorists release poisonous gas in the Tokyo subway

  Twelve people were killed and thousands were injured after members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo planted sarin-laced containers on five different trains.

• 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry

  Following their wedding in Gibraltar, the artists spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam with a week-long Bed-In for Peace.

• 1916 Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity

  The revolutionary theory describes the interdependence of matter and space and time on the one hand, and matter and space and time on the other. It is one of the most influential physics theories.

• 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  The anti-slavery narrative was crucial in setting the stage for the American Civil War.