{"id":502536,"date":"2025-03-19T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/march-20th-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:45:00","slug":"march-20th-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/style\/anniversaries\/march-20th-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"March 20th Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>\u00a0The events of\u00a0<strong>March 20<\/strong>\u00a0are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0<strong>Below, the main events of March 20:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>International Day of Happiness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spring Equinox.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Autumn Equinox (Southern Hemisphere).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Sparrow Day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Oral Health Day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Day of the French Language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Day of La Francophonie.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Meat-Free Day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Flour Day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Frog Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saints:<\/strong> Saints Alexandra and Claudia. Saint Anatolius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National: March 20th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1844: General Pedro Santana establishes his camp in Sabana Buey, while Charles Herard seizes Azua.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1849: Haitian President Faustino Soulouque, at the head of invading troops, seizes San Juan de la Maguana.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1861: Leaders from Saman\u00e1, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa, Neiba and San Juan de la Maguana, support annexation to Spain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1867: Congress authorizes the Executive Branch to take out a loan of one hundred thousand strong pesos in the neighboring island of Saint Thomas, with the guarantee of the country's credit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1914: President Jos\u00e9 Bordas Valdez sends a Diplomatic Note to the United States government, asking to designate a financial expert \"to prepare the debt settlement\".<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1937: President Rafael Trujillo enacts Law 1272, which institutes the celebration of the National Sports Games.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1961: The American surgeon Henry T. Nichols performs the first open-heart surgery at the \"Doctor Salvador B. Gautier\" hospital, broadcast on radio and television.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1964: The de facto president, Donald Reid Cabral, creates the current DNI through law 196, attached to the Presidency of the Republic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1970: A dynamite charge destroys the car of journalist Juan Bol\u00edvar D\u00edaz, interpreted as a warning from government sectors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1991: Professor Juan Bosch announces the revocation of his resignation from the PLD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1996: President Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer meets behind closed doors with presidential candidate Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Russia announces sanctions against US officials and politicians in response to US sanctions for the annexation of Crimea.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: Polish priest Wojciech Gil pleads guilty to child abuse in the Dominican Republic and Poland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: Ex-guerrilla Claudio Caama\u00f1o Grull\u00f3n suffers a car accident.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: The presidents of Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Panama meet at the IV Summit of the Alliance for Development in Democracy (ADD).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>International: March 20th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>44 BC: Antony reveals the will of Julius Caesar, starting a civil war in Rome.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1179: Treaty of Cazorla between Castile and Aragon to divide the lands of the Reconquest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1565: Philip II commissions Pedro Men\u00e9ndez de Avil\u00e9s to conquer and convert the natives of La Florida.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1780: The young Frenchman Gilbert du Motier (Marquis de La Fayette) embarks for the American coasts to help the insurgents against the British.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1814: Chilean forces under the command of General Bernardo O\u2019Higgins defeat the Spanish in El Membrillar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1815: Napoleon Bonaparte enters Paris after his exile on the island of Elba.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1818: General Jean Pierre Boyer is elected president for life of Haiti.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1854: The Republican Party, opposed to slavery, is founded in the United States.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1856: Costa Ricans defeat the adventurer William Walker in the Battle of Santa Rosa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1861: A violent earthquake causes more than 10,000 deaths in Mendoza, Argentina.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1873: Slavery is abolished in the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1890: Germany dismisses Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1933: Inauguration of the first Nazi concentration camp in Dachau.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1976: The trial against Patricia Hearst, kidnapped in 1974, begins in San Francisco.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2001: The P-36 oil platform sinks off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003: US President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004: Hundreds of thousands demonstrate against the occupation of Iraq.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: Pope Benedict XVI apologizes to the victims of sexual abuse by priests of the Catholic Church in Ireland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: About 137 dead and 345 injured in four attacks in two mosques in Sana'a, Yemen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: US President Barack Obama begins his historic official visit to Cuba.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: The US Federal Trade Commission investigates Facebook for improper access to private information of 50 million users.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: The head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia calls on Ukrainian forces to leave Mariupol within 24 hours. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acnur.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.acnur.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNHCR<\/a><\/strong> estimates that 10 million people have fled Ukraine due to the war with Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Births: March 20th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/efemerides-del-20-de-marzo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-447365\" style=\"width:210px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>efem\u00e9rides del 20 de marzo<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1477: Jer\u00f3nimo Emser, German theologian, antagonist of Martin Luther.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1639: Ivan Mazepa, leader of the Cossack Hetmanate, fought to restore the political and military independence of Ukraine against Russia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1884: Philipp Frank, physicist, mathematician and philosopher, member of the Vienna Circle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1911: Alfonso Garc\u00eda Robles, Mexican diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1939: Brian Mulroney, Canadian politician, Prime Minister of Canada between 1984 and 1993.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1947: Horacio V\u00e1zquez Rial, Spanish writer and journalist born in Argentina.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1958: Holly Hunter, American actress, Oscar for Best Actress in 1993 for The Piano.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1976: Chester Bennington, American musician, from the band Linkin Park.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1991: Luisito Comunica, Mexican youtuber.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2000: Hyunjin, South Korean singer, member of the group Stray Kids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deaths: March 20th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1865: Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai and secretary general of the Shinsengumi.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009: Abdellatif Filali, politician and Prime Minister of Morocco between 1994 and 1998.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2024: Ant\u00f3nio Pacheco, Portuguese footballer and coach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.-\u00a0The events of\u00a0March 20\u00a0are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0Below, the main events of March 20: Saints: Saints Alexandra and Claudia. Saint Anatolius. National: March 20th Anniversaries International: March 20th Anniversaries Births: March 20th Anniversaries Deaths: March 20th Anniversaries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40918],"tags":[40231,40224],"class_list":{"0":"post-502536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anniversaries","7":"tag-dominican-republic","8":"tag-ephemeris"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Anniversaries"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}