MARCH 20
1852:Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery work Uncle Tom's Cabin is
published by John P. Jewett and Co. in Boston; it will become the
best-selling novel of the 19th century and a major influence on the
nation's views on slavery. Upon meeting Stowe in 1862, as the Civil War raged on, President Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war."
1969: Beginning one of the most famous (to some, infamous) of all music marriages, John Lennon
weds Yoko Ono in Gibraltar, an event immortalized in Lennon's "The
Ballad of John and Yoko." Only a week earlier, Beatles bandmate Paul
McCartney had wed Linda Eastman in London.
1987: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizes the sale of
azidothymidine (better known as AZT). It is the first authorized
antiretroviral drug to treat HIV/AIDS and has proved effective in inhibiting the onset of AIDS in HIV-positive individuals.
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