March 20

On This Day In History
	1995: AUM subway attack Top leaders of AUM Shinrikyo (Japanese: "AUM Supreme Truth"), a Japanese Buddhist sect founded in 1987 by Asahara Shoko, released nerve gas into a Tokyo subway this day in 1995, killing 12 people and injuring thousands.
Asahara Shoko (left), the leader of AUM Shinrikyo, with a top disciple, Yoshihiro Inoue, in Tokyo
Biography Of The Day
	Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton, whose Principia (1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science and who was the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century, died this day in 1727.
Isaac Newton, portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1689
More Events On This Day In History
	2004 The U.S. Army announced that charges were being brought against six American soldiers in connection with the reported abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war being held in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during the Iraq War.
1987	1987 AZT (azidothymidine) became the first drug to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of AIDS.
	1854 A meeting of Whigs, anti-Nebraska Democrats, and Free-Soilers in Ripon, Wisconsin, proposed the formation of what became the Republican Party in the United States.
	1852 American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form.
	1828 Playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway.
	1815 The Hundred Days—during which Napoleon, having ended his exile by escaping the island of Elba, would try to recapture his empire in France—began with Napoleon's arrival in Paris.
	1770 German lyric poet Friedrich Hölderlin was born in Lauffen am Neckar, Württemberg.
43	43 Roman poet Ovid was born in what is now Sulmona, Italy.