50 years ago

March 20, 1976

The Federal Highway Administration gave the final go-ahead to PennDOT to proceed with new Rt. 22 from Ebensburg to the Blair County line. The Ebensburg Clergy Association called the old Route 22 “the killer highway.”

25 years ago

March 20, 2001

Huck Jacobson, a long-time factory in Altoona that manufactured high stress nuts and bolts for the automotive industry, had its 160 workers informed that there was a “high probability” the plant would close.

10 years ago

March 20, 2016

The five Blair County judges were preparing for what they thought could be as many as 6,000 plus appeals to the 66,000 plus property reassessments recently completed in Blair County for tax purposes.

— Compiled by Tim Doyle

Today is Friday, March 20, the 79th day of 2026. There are 286 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were opened and dispersed on five separate subway trains in a terror attack by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, causing 14 deaths and injuring more than 1,000.

Also on this date:

— In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.

— In 1854, the Republican Party of the United States was founded by opponents of slavery at a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin.

— The Associated Press