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Events on March 20

• 1212 With a document sealed by Emperor Otto IV at the Diet of Frankfurt, the founding of the Leipzig Thomanerchor is confirmed.
• 1800 Alessandro Volta informs the Royal Society in London about a power source he devised, whose principle becomes known as the Voltaic pile.
• 1848 Ludwig I abdicates as King of Bavaria during the March Revolution, not least due to his affair with the dancer Lola Montez, in favor of his son Maximilian II.
• 1890 Otto von Bismarck is dismissed as German Reich Chancellor at his own request, after jurisdictional disputes arose between him and Kaiser Wilhelm II. Leo von Caprivi becomes the new Reich Chancellor.
• 1916 Albert Einstein publishes the article The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity in the journal Annalen der Physik. In it, he traces gravity back to a geometric phenomenon in a curved 4-dimensional spacetime.
• 1949 In the three West Berlin sectors, the DM becomes the sole legal tender. The Western Allies thereby end the parallel validity of the Ostmark that had existed since the currency reform.
• 1969 Beatles member John Lennon and artist Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar.
• 1993 Professional boxer Henry Maske from Frankfurt (Oder) wins the World Championship in the light heavyweight division by a points decision against the American Charles Williams.
• 1995 Members of the Japanese organization Aum Shinrikyo carry out a poison gas attack with sarin in the Tokyo subway. 13 people are killed, over 6,000 injured.
• 2003 Even before dawn, the Third Gulf War of the 'Coalition of the Willing' under the leadership of the United States against Iraq begins with a targeted bombardment of Baghdad.
• 2010 In southern Iceland, the first eruptions occur in the Eyjafjallajökull area, which will subsequently lead to an unprecedented disruption of air traffic in Europe.
• 2020 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a curfew is announced in Bavaria, with the other federal states following in the subsequent days with similar regulations.

Born on March 20

• 1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, US-American engineer and work scientist, founder of Taylorism
• 1870 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general and writer
• 1890 Beniamino Gigli, Italian opera singer and film actor
• 1920 Werner Klemperer, German-US-American actor and musician
• 1950 William Hurt, US-American actor
• 1950 Carl Palmer, British musician
• 1970 Bernhard Hoëcker, German actor, comedy performer and presenter
• 1970 Michael Rapaport, US-American comedian and actor
• 1991 Alexis Pinturault, French ski racer
• 2000 Hyunjin, South Korean rapper and singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „20. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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