What singer was born March 20, 1937, in a city named in his/her most famous hit? Other events of note from this date in history: 1345 Conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, thought by scholars at the University of Paris to be the "cause of the plague epidemic" known as the Black Death. Actual cause was the bacterium yersinia pestis spread by fleas, rats and other animals. 1739 Iranian ruler Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne 1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings 1819 London’s famous Burlington Arcade opens, the world’s 1st shopping arcade 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published in Boston 1854 Anti-slavery activists within the US Whig political party opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act form a new Republican Party 1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist and composer, born in Russia 1886 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation in Massachusetts 1922 USS Langley is commissioned, US Navy's 1st aircraft carrier 1922 Carl Reiner, comedian, actor, and screenwriter, born in The Bronx 1925 David Warren, inventor of the black box flight data recorder, born in Australia 1928 Fred Rogers born in Latrobe, Pa. 1930 American fast food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is founded as Sanders Court & Café by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky 1934 American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers 1945 Pat Riley, NBA coach, born in Schenectady, N.Y. 1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania) 1957 Spike Lee, film director, born in Atlanta 1958 Holly Hunger, actress, born in Conyers, Ga. 1963 Kathy Ireland, model and actress, born in Glendale, Calif. 1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race 1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment) 1990 Singer Gloria Estefan fractures her spine when a truck hits her tour bus near Scranton, Pennsylvania 1995 Members of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo release sarin gas on three lines of the Tokyo subway, killing 13 people and injuring over 1,000 2003 A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires