These are just some of the events that happened on March 20th.

1727, English scientist Sir Isaac Newton died.

1819, London's famous exclusive Burlington Arcade opened.

1852, American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic book Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.

1933, the Nazis opened the first concentration camp at Dachau.

1964, Irish playwright and novelist Brendan Behan died.

1965, the first Motown tour of Britain arrived with Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes and The Temptations.

1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

1970, British rock star David Bowie married Angela Barnett in Bromley, Kent, England.

1971, Brenda Robinson set the world record for threading a sewing needle - 3,795 times in two hours.

1976, Patty Hearst, San Francisco newspaper heiress, was found guilty of armed robbery for her part in a bank hold-up.

1977, the final T-Rex concert was held in Portsmouth, England.

1984, British rocker Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, married Swedish actress Britt Ekland.

1990, American singer Gloria Estefan broke her back when a truck crashed into her tour bus. She made a full recovery 10 months later.

1991, Conor Clapton, four year-old son of British guitarist Eric Clapton, died when he fell from the window of his mother's 53rd-story New York City apartment.

1991, American pop star Michael Jackson signed the biggest deal in entertainment history with a billion-dollar record, video and movie deal with Sony.

1995, twelve people were killed and more the 5,500 were sickened when poisonous sarin gas was leaked on five trains in the Tokyo subway.

1996, the divorce rate in Britain reached an all-time high of 41 percent of couples, said the Office of Population Census and Surveys.

1997, the number five cigarette company in America, the Liggett Group, broke ranks and publicly accepted that smoking is addictive and can kill.

1998, jazz legend Joseph Lloyd 'Wally' Walcott died, aged 101.

2003, the invasion of Iraq begins: In the early hours of the morning, the United States, Britain, Australia and Poland begin military operations in Iraq.

2005, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.

2006, Cyclone Larry makes landfall in north eastern Australia.