Once Upon A Time – March 20 – 2016 – Barack Obama Becomes First US President To Visit Cuba Since 1928

1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms

1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London

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

1900 US Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an ‘open door’ policy in China have essentially accepted his stand

1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed

2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1952 24th Academy Awards: “An American in Paris”, Humphrey Bogart & Vivien Leigh win

Today in Music
1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M deal with Sony Records to produce 6 albums

Today in Sport
1973 Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame, 11 weeks after his death in a plane crash

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1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published in Boston

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2017 Indian rivers Yamuna and the Ganges declared “living entities” by court in the state of Uttarakhand