Today in history: March 20
In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was first published in book form after being serialized.
1922: USS Langley
In 1922, the decommissioned USS Jupiter, converted into the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, was recommissioned as the USS Langley.
1969: Yoko Ono
In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
1976: Patricia Hearst
In 1976, kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1995: Aum Shinrikyo
In 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo (ohm shin-ree-kyoh) cult members.
1996: Erik and Lyle Menendez
On March 20, 1996, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their wealthy parents.
2014: Barack Obama
In 2014, President Barack Obama ordered economic sanctions against nearly two dozen members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and a major bank that provided them support, raising the stakes in an East-West showdown over Ukraine.
2018: Vladimir Putin
In 2018, in a phone call to Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump offered congratulations on Putin’s reelection victory; a senior official said Trump had been warned in briefing materials that he should not congratulate Putin.
2021: VCU
VCU was kicked out of the NCAA Tournament shortly before its first-round game because of multiple positive COVID-19 tests.
With the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden at a crossroad, Republican Rep. James Comer is eyeing “multiple” potential criminal referrals of alleged Biden family wrongdoing instead.
