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2020

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company’s board of directors to focus on his philanthropic work.

The United States grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after other countries do the same following a second crash in Ethiopia.

Joe Johnston’s film “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” starring Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson, premieres in Los Angeles.

Pope Francis succeeds Benedict XVI.

Luciano Pavarotti performs his final opera, “Tosca,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Felquiste Paul Rose is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Labor Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis of 1970.

Manitoba becomes the first province to vote for alcohol prohibition.

Cambridge College becomes Harvard, in honor of John Harvard, a member of the clergy.

The first meeting of what would become the Académie Française takes place in Paris at the home of Valentin Conrart.

It happened on… March 13