March 22

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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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 Indians 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.
• 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 & Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• 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.

Births

• 1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1599 – Anthony van Dyck, painter (d. 1641)
• 1797 – Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and German Emperor (d. 1888)
• 1812 – Stephen Pearl Andrews, Anarchist, Abolitionist (d. 1886)
• 1817 – Braxton Bragg, Confederate general (d. 1876)
• 1817  – Baha'u'llah, prophet of the Baha'i faith (d. 1892)
• 1861 – Walter Francis Willcox, statistician and Census Bureau head (d. 1964)
• 1878 – Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete (d. 1919)
• 1887 – Chico Marx, comedian, actor (d. 1961)
• 1907 – Lucia dos Santos, Fatima witness (d. 2005)
• 1908 – Louis L'Amour, author (d. 1988)
• 1909 – Gabrielle Roy, author (d. 1983)
• 1912 – Karl Malden, actor
• 1912 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985)
• 1918 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician (d. 1997)
• 1920 – Werner Klemperer, actor (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
• 1924 – Allen Neuharth, American businessman, writer
• 1924 – Bill Wendell, American broadcast announcer (d. 1999)
• 1923 – Marcel Marceau, mime
• 1928 – Ed Macauley, American basketball player
• 1928 – Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Pat Robertson, televangelist
• 1930  – Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist
• 1930 – Derek Bok, American lawyer, educator
• 1931 – William Shatner, actor
• 1933 – May Britt, Swedish actress
• 1933 – Abolhassan Banisadr, President of Iran
• 1934 – Orrin Hatch, politician (Senator from Utah)
• 1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, actor
• 1936 – Ron Carey, labor leader
• 1936 – Roger Whittaker, singer
• 1937 – Armin Hary, German athlete
• 1940 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
• 1941 – Jeremy Clyde, British actor, singer
• 1943 – George Benson, jazz musician
• 1943 – Keith Relf, British musician-- vocals/harmonica with The Yardbirds (d. 1976)
• 1945 – Paul Schockemöhle, equestrian
• 1946 – André Heller, artist
• 1946  – Rudy Rucker, science fiction author
• 1948 – Wolf Blitzer, television journalist
• 1948  – Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer
• 1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress
• 1952 – Bob Costas, sports commentator, broadcaster, talk show host
• 1955 – Pete Sessions, U.S. politician
• 1956 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
• 1957 – Stephanie Mills, American actress, singer
• 1959 – Matthew Modine, American actor (Full Metal Jacket)
• 1966 – Artis Pabriks, Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1967 – Mario Cipollini, cyclist
• 1972 – Shawn Bradley, basketball player
• 1972  – Elvis Stojko, figure skater
• 1974 – Marcus Camby, basketball player
• 1976 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress
• 2233 – (fictional) James T. Kirk, Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise (in Star Trek)

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Deaths

• 1471 – Pope Paul II (b. 1418)
• 1687 – Jean Baptiste Lully, French composer (b. 1632)
• 1820 – Stephen Decatur, sailor (b. 1779)
• 1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and poet (b. 1749)
• 1842 – Stendhal, French author
• 1896 – Thomas Hughes, novelist (b. 1822)
• 1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, founder of the KMT (b. 1882)
• 1945 – John Hessin Clarke, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1857)
• 1952 – Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer
• 1958 – Michael Todd, Academy Award winning film producer
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda, acrobat (The Flying Wallendas)
• 1981 – James "Jumbo" Elliott, hall of fame track coach (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Charles Starrett, American actor
• 1987 – Joan Shawlee, American actress
• 1990 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer
• 1994 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, record producer
• 1999 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
• 2001 – William Hanna, animator, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio
• 2003 – Terry Lloyd, reporter
• 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

• The fourth day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
• Easter Sunday – 1818, 2285. In the Gregorian Calendar 22nd March is the earliest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (25th April is the latest).
• World Water Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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