On This Day - March 20th

Submitted by Syrext on March 20, 2025

On This Day 📜 - March 20th

Featured Event:

AUM subway attack (1995) 🚇

Top leaders of AUM Shinrikyo (Japanese: “AUM Supreme Truth”), a Japanese Buddhist sect founded in 1987 by Asahara Shoko, released nerve gas into a Tokyo subway this day in 1995, killing 12 people and injuring thousands.

Other Events:

1815: The Hundred Days—during which Napoleon would try to recapture his empire in France after his exile in Elba—began with Napoleon's arrival in Paris. 🇫🇷

1930: American fast food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is founded as Sanders Court & Café by Colonel Harland Sanders 🍗

1969: John Lennon, a leader of the British rock group the Beatles, married Japanese artist and musician Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. 🎶

1999: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first aviators to circumnavigate the globe nonstop by balloon 🎈

Holidays:

Independence Day 🇹🇳

International Day of Happiness 🗺️ (UN)

International Francophonie Day 🗣️

Featured Birthdays:

1828: Henrik Ibsen 🇳🇴 (Dramatist)

1928: Fred Rogers 🇺🇸 (TV Personality)

1939: Brian Mulroney 🇨🇦 (Prime Minister)

1957: Spike Lee 🇺🇸 (Director)