March 20, 2020 This Day in History: March 20 John Lennon marries Yoko Ono; U.S. military charges six soldiers with abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison and more.
March 19, 2020 This Day in History: March 19 Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as chairman of his PTL ministry organization amid a sex and money scandal; President George W. Bush orders the start of the Iraq war;
March 14, 2020 This Day in History: March 14 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama denounces inflammatory remarks from his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who railed against the United States ("God damn America.") and accused its leaders of bringing on the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Stephen Hawking, the best-known theoretical physicist of his time, dies.
March 13, 2020 This Day in History: March 13 President Trump accuses California of putting “the entire nation at risk” by refusing to take tough action against illegal immigration; the world is introduced to Pope Francis and more.
March 12, 2020 FDR's first fireside chat to calm nation amid Great Depression: This Day in History Just a week after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first radio address 87 years ago on Thursday to assure a nation reeling from the Great Depression.
March 12, 2020 This Day in History: March 12 Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are charged in a massive college admissions cheating scandal; Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to the largest Ponzi scheme in history and more.
March 10, 2020 This Day in History: March 10 Harriet Tubman, former slave, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor,” dies. Neil Simon’s play “The Odd Couple,” starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opens on Broadway in New York City. James Earl Ray pleads guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later would retract that plea.)
March 9, 2020 This Day in History: March 9 The Notorious B.I.G. is killed; A-Rod and JLo get engaged and more.
March 8, 2020 This Day in History: March 8 Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in "The Fight of the Century." Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people on board, vanishes
March 7, 2020 This Day in History: March 7 "Bloody Sunday" rocks Selma, Ala.; former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is sentenced.