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2020

The NHL announces the suspension of the 2019–20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Premiere of the film “The Hunger Games,” directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Lawrence, in Los Angeles.

A reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan explodes, releasing radiation into the atmosphere after the country is struck by a tsunami.

Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to an $18 billion fraud.

The animated film “Ice Age,” directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha and featuring the voices of Denis Leary and John Leguizamo, is released.

"Wonder Woman" premieres on ABC. The show will later air on CBS as well.

The “Dennis the Menace” comic strip appears in newspapers for the first time.

To protest against British rule in India, Gandhi begins a 300-km march.

Moscow becomes the capital of Russia.

The first bottle of Coca-Cola is sold in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

It happened on… March 12