2004The US military charges six American soldiers with abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison outside Iraq’s capital Baghdad.

1815France’s Napoleon Bonaparte returns to Paris and regains power after escaping exile on the island of Elba. Napoleon is driven back into exile months later after his defeat of the Battle of Waterloo. 1852Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s influential novel condemning slavery is first published. The book intensifies the vision of the United States over slavery less than a decade before the Civil War breaks out.

1995In Tokyo, a Doomsday Cult releases the poisonous gas sarin on five subway trains. The attack kills a dozen people and sickens more than 5500 others.

And 1969Musician John Lennon of the Beatles marries artist Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. Today in History, March 20th, Mike Gracia, the Associated Press.