TODAY IN HISTORY
On March 20, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was first published in book form.
In 1854, the Republican Party of the United States
was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin.
In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono.
In 1976, kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup.
In 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed when
packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members.
In 2018, in a phone call to Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump offered congratulations on Putin’s reelection victory; a senior official said Trump had been warned in briefing materials that he should not congratulate Putin.