A closer look at the key events on March 20 in history:
In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry
The couple flew to Gibraltar where they secretly tied the knot. They later travelled t0 Amsterdam for their honeymoon, where they staged a bed-in protest, not leaving their bed at the Hilton hotel for five days to protest for world peace.
In 1916, Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity
Known as one of the most influential theories in Physics, the theory of relativity describes the interdependency of matter on the one hand and space and time on the other.
In 1815, Napoleon’s Hundred Days begins
The Hundred Days is a period between March 20 , when Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from his exile at Elba to recapture his empire in France and July 8 when Louis XVIII returned to Paris. Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815.
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