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Current events of March 20, 2013 (2013-03-20) (Wednesday)

19 miners, who were trapped underground, are rescued from the Rudna mine after a small earthquake hits the heavily industrialized region of Silesia, Poland. (BBC) (The Guardian)

South Korea is suspected to be the target of recent cyberattacks as major TV stations and bank's computer systems infrastructures experience disruptions followed by shutdown. Recent reports indicate that the systems were brought down by a computer virus. (BBC) (AP via Fox News)
Two 18-year-old male high school football players at Torrington High School in Connecticut, Edgar Gonzales and Joan Toribio, are arrested and charged with felony second-degree sexual assault and other crimes involving the alleged statutory rape of separate 13-year-old girls. (NBC)

Scientists hotly debate the possibility that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in September 1977, may have left the Solar System. (BBC) (AGU)
Belgium's Pierre Deligne wins the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry. (Abel Prize) (The Hindu) (AP via The Washington Post)

Leigh Nugent resigns as the head coach of the Australian swimming team following negative reports into the culture of the team. (ABC News Australia)