CenturyLink Field

The 2020 season for Seattle Sounders FC was their twelfth in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top flight of professional club soccer in the United States. It was the 37th season played by a professional team bearing the Sounders name. Seattle was the reigning MLS Cup champions and were expected to play 34 matches during the regular season, which began on March 1. The regular season was suspended on March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which had already caused reduced attendance at an earlier match. MLS play returned with a special tournament in July hosted at a bubble site; Seattle then hosted matches at CenturyLink Field (pictured), their home stadium, behind closed doors. The Sounders only played 22 regular season matches after several were canceled; the 2020 U.S. Open Cup was also canceled. Seattle qualified for the playoffs as the second-placed team in the Western Conference and won a second consecutive conference championship. They lost 3–0 in MLS Cup 2020 against the Columbus Crew SC. (Full article...)

Sony PVM-4300, with a cat for scale

• ... that the Sony PVM-4300 (pictured) has the largest cathode-ray tube ever made?
• ... that the Samsum ant is known for a powerful sting that can lead to anaphylactic shock and death?
• ... that the first owner of the 55 Bar supposedly won the property in a card game?
• ... that tsunami stones serve as risk warnings for tsunamis in Japan?
• ... that Jackson Cantwell, the number-one college football recruit for 2026, is the son of two Olympians and holds several youth world records in track and field?
• ... that most of My Chemical Romance's debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, was recorded in only a week?
• ... that Gerald Shirtcliff's fake engineering qualifications were exposed following the collapse of the CTV Building?
• ... that the Santander anarchist newspaper Adelante had to be printed in neighbouring Torrelavega, as no printing shop in the city was willing to print it due to its political orientation?
• ... that "Go New York Go" has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993?

Rodrigo Duterte

• Former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte (pictured) is arrested on the basis of an International Criminal Court warrant charging him with crimes against humanity.
• Intuitive Machines' Athena lands on the Moon at an incorrect angle and is unable to complete its mission.
• In computing, Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are awarded the Turing Award for their work on reinforcement learning.
• Chinese architect Liu Jiakun is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

March 12

Andrew Watson

• 1537 – Croatian–Ottoman wars: After the execution of feudal lord Petar Kružić, Croatian forces at Klis surrendered to the Ottoman forces in exchange for their safe passage to northern locations.
• 1881 – Andrew Watson (pictured) captained the Scotland national football team against England, becoming the world's first black international footballer.
• 1947 – Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
• 1952 – British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed the first secretary general of NATO.
• 1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel.
• 2006 – U.S. Army soldiers gang-raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family members.