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.
- 1963 Please Please Me 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.
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
- 1975 - John Joyce, American artist
- 1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
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
External links
March 21 - March 23 - February 22 - April 22 -- listing of all days
See also: March 22, 1418, 1459, 1471, 1599, 1621, 1622
