March 20 Major Events in World History
March 20, 2026
2003
The United States and coalition invade Iraq on 20 March 2003, beginning the Iraq War aimed at toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime.
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.
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