FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2020

1602-United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

1760-Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings

1815-Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

1888-Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia"

1931-Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin

1942-General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"

1947-180-metric ton blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic

1952-U.S. Senate's final ratification of peace treaty restoring sovereignty to Japan

1954-First newspaper vending machine used (Columbia, Pennsylvania)

1956-Tunisia gains independence from France

1956-USSR performs nuclear test

1969-John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar

1977-Parisians elect former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac as first mayor in a century

1987-Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit