Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 20

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 * 1760 – A fire of unknown cause broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, destroying 349 buildings.
 * 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, was published.
 * 1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosted the opening of Pablo Picasso's first solo United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
 * 1939 – Germany issued an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding the return of the Klaipėda Region under threat of invasion.
 * 1942 – World War II: After being forced to flee the Philippines for Australia, US Army general Douglas MacArthur (pictured) announced: "I came through and I shall return."
 * 1993 – The Troubles: Two children were killed by the second of two bomb attacks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Warrington, England.
 * Born/died: | Wareru |b|1253| Maurice Csák |d|1336| Muhammad bin Tughluq |d|1351| Alexios III of Trebizond |d|1390| Isaac Newton |d|1726/27| Adrienne Lecouvreur |d|1730|Benjamin Truman |d|1780| James Tod |b|1782|  Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck |b|1870| Amanda Clement |b|1888| Abraham Beame |b|1906|  Elisabeth Geleerd  |b|1909| Mihajlo Petrović |d|1913|  S. Arasaratnam |b|1930 Dorothy Campbell |d|1945| Amir Hamzah |d|1946|  Zillur Rahman  |d|2013| Eva Burrows |d|2015