March 20 Major Events in World History

2012

A wave of coordinated terror attacks kills at least 52 and injures over 250 across ten Iraqi cities on 20 March 2012, one of the deadliest single days of violence in post-U.S. Iraq.

2014

Four Taliban militants attack the Kabul Serena Hotel on 20 March 2014, killing at least nine people; the hotel is a symbol of Western presence and frequented by diplomats.

2015

On 20 March 2015 a solar eclipse, the March equinox, and a full supermoon coincide, a rare astronomical alignment sometimes called a Super Blood Moon eclipse.