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 Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1784 - The Emerald Buddha was moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
1849 - The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
1871 - In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1873 - A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
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.
1943 - World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion 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, the first Beatles album, is 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.
1979 - Margaret Thatcher puts down an Early Day Motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan.
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.
1996 - Göran Persson succeeds Ingvar Carlsson as Swedish prime minister.
1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
1997 - The comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth.
2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
2006 - Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

Births

1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1234)
1366 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
1599 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
1609 - King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
1663 - August Hermann Francke, German protestant minister (d. 1727)
1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
1723 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1783)
1797 - King Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, abolitionist (d. 1886)
1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
1817 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
1860 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (d. 1940)
1868 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1878 - Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete (d. 1919)
1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1887 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1901 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
1907 - Lucia dos Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
1908 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
1909 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983)
1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985)
1912 - Karl Malden, American actor
1913 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
1915 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer
1918 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
1920 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (d. 2000)
1920 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
1924 - Allen Neuharth, American businessman and writer
1923 - Marcel Marceau, French mime
1928 - Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
1928 - Ed Macauley, American basketball player
1930 - Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
1930 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist
1930 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
1931 - Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - William Shatner, Canadian actor
1933 - May Britt, Swedish actress
1933 - Abolhassan Banisadr, President of Iran
1934 - Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator from Utah
1935 - M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
1936 - Ron Carey, labor leader
1936 - Roger Whittaker, British singer
1937 - Armin Hary, German athlete
1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d. 1996)
1940 - Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
1941 - Jeremy Clyde, British actor and singer
1941 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
1941 - Billy Collins, American Poet
1943 - George Benson, American musician
1943 - Keith Relf, British musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
1946 - Rudy Rucker, American author
1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer
1949 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
1952 - Bob Costas, American sports commentator and talk show host
1955 - Pete Sessions, American politician
1955 - Lena Olin, Swedish actress
1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)
1957 - Stephanie Mills, American actress, singer
1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor
1959 - Mike Brey, College Basketball coach
1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1972 - Shawn Bradley, Former American basketball player
1972 - Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
1973 - Juninho, Brazilian football player
1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
1974 - Kidada jones, American actress, model, fashion designer
1976 - Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1979 - Aaron North, American guitarist
1988 - David Radford, American Idol contestant

Deaths

1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388)
1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)
1758 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (b. 1703)
1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
1820 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)
1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
1896 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
1924 - William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)
1945 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)
1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1958 - Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1904)
1978 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 - Charles Starrett, American actor
1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
1993 - Curtis Taylor, an eighth grader who went to Oak Bridge Middle School and got teased. (b. 1978)
1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas
2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

The fourth day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.
World Water Day.

Liturgical feasts

Easter Sunday - 1818, 2285. In the Gregorian Calendar 22 March is the earliest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (25th April is the latest).
Saint Octavian
Saint Lea of Rome
Saint Reinhilde of Ghent
Blessed Genta of Maaseik

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