March 20
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Art and culture
- The winter ends
- 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
- 1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono marry in Gibraltar
- 2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
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Births
- 43 BC - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
- 1770 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
- 1828 - Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906)
- 1895 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981)
- 1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990)
- 1936 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Reggae artist
- 1943 - Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
- 1957 - Spike Lee, American film director
- 1957 - Theresa Russell, American actress
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Deaths
- 1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
- 1945 - Lord Alfred Douglas, English writer ("The love that dare not speak its name.") (b. 1870)
- 1964 - Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and author (b. 1923)
- 1968 - Carl Dreyer, Danish film director. (b. 1889)
- 1992 - Georges Delerue, French film composer (b. 1925)
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