March 22
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March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (82nd in leap years). There are 284 days remaining.
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[change] Events
- 238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
- 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
- 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Native Americans kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
- 1630 – Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- 1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
- 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
- 1809 – Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
- 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- 1888 – The Football League is formed.
- 1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
- 1895 – First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
- 1933 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
- 1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
- 1939 – World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
- 1941 – Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
- 1942 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Regia Marina defeats Royal Navy in the Second Battle of Sirte.
- 1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1954 – Closed since 1939, the London gold market reopens.
- 1958 – Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia.
- 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
- 1963 – Please Please Me becomes the first Beatles album released in the UK.
- 1965 – Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.
- 1975 – A fire at the Brown's Ferry nuclear reactor in Decatur, Alabama, causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
- 1975 – In Stockholm, Sweden, Teach-In wins the twentieth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Ding-a-dong."
- 1978 – Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1984 – Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
- 1989 – Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former secretary, begins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
- 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
- 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
- 1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
- 2005 – Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols (women's college basketball), becomes the all-time leader in victories for both men's and women's college basketball, getting her 880th win as coach of the team.
- 2009 – The Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska erupts.
[change] Births
- 1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
- 1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
- 1609 – John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
- 1797 – Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
- 1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
- 1857 – Paul Doumer, President of France (d. 1932)
- 1868 – Robert Millikan, American physicist (d. 1953)
- 1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
- 1887 – Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
- 1902 – Madeleine Milhaud, French actress (d. 2008)
- 1908 – Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
- 1912 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1913 – Sabiha Gokcen, Turkish combat pilot (d. 2001)
- 1917 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1918 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Pat Robertson, American televangelist
- 1930 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
- 1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist
- 1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor
- 1932 – Larry Evans, American chess player (d. 2010)
- 1936 – Roger Whittaker, British singer
- 1941 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
- 1942 – Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
- 1948 – Bernhard Dietz, German footballer
- 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer
- 1949 – John Toshack, Welsh footballer and manager
- 1955 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
- 1955 – Valdis Zatlers, President of Latvia
- 1963 – Giuseppe Galderisi, Italian footballer and manager
- 1965 – Emma Wray, British actress
- 1972 – Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
- 1972 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
- 1973 – Beverley Knight, British singer
- 1974 – Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
- 1976 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress
- 1984 – Piotr Trochowski, German footballer
- 1985 – Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
- 1985 – Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
- 1988 – Tania Raymonde, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 1602 – Agostino Carracci, Italian composer (b. 1557)
- 1685 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
- 1687 – Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer (b. 1632)
- 1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
- 1917 - Yi-junyong, Korean Joseon Dynasty's politicians (b. 1870)
- 1958 – Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
- 1978 – Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
- 1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek military officer (b. 1912)
- 1993 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
- 1994 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
- 2001 – Sabiha Gokcen, Turkish combat pilot (b. 1913)
- 2001 – William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
- 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. 1936)
- 2009 – Jade Goody, British television personality (b. 1981)
- 2010 – Valentina Tolkunova, Russian singer (b. 1946)
- 2010 – James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical researcher (b. 1924)
