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| March 20th, 2006 | Event | Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country s banana crop. |
| March 20th, 2006 | Event | Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby. |
| March 20th, 2005 | Event | A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated. |
| March 20th, 2004 | Event | Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party s first leader. |
| March 20th, 2003 | Event | 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq. |
| March 20th, 2000 | Event | Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff s deputy dead. |
| March 20th, 1999 | Event | Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California. |
| March 20th, 1993 | Event | An IRA bomb explodes in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children. |
| March 20th, 1990 | Event | Ferdinand Marcos s widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. |
| March 20th, 1988 | Event | Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People s Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet. |
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