In March 2013, President Barack Obama made a significant diplomatic visit to Israel, marking his first trip to the country since taking office in 2009.

While former Panama military dictator Manuel Noriega was awaiting his fate on racketeering charges, his wife Felicidad was having her own run-in with the law.

In a landmark event that reverberated through the cultural landscape of the 1960s, John Lennon of The Beatles married artist Yoko Ono on March 20, 1969.

In a significant post-war development, the United States Senate ratified a Security Treaty with Japan on January 30, 1952, with a decisive vote of 66-10.

In a historic move for naval aviation, the U.

On March 20, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln’s sons, Willie and Tad, are diagnosed with the measles, adding to the president’s many troubles.

The Birth of the Republican Party: A Historic Gathering in Ripon, Wisconsin In a defining moment for American politics, the Republican Party was established on March 20, 1854, in a modest schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, as a coalition of determined opponents of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published.

In 1852, the literary landscape of America dramatically shifted with the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s groundbreaking novel, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Burlington Arcade, one of London's finest shopping streets, was opened on this day, partly as a deterrent to litter louts.