March 22
March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years ). There are 284 days remaining.
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 (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 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
External links
March 21 - March 23 - February 22 - April 22 -- listing of all days
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