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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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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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 Lumi�re.
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.

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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 Th�ato, 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 Schockem�hle, equestrian
1946 - Andr� 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

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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)

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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