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.

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.
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.
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 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.
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

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)
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)
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)
1887 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
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, Guyanese politician (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)
1941 - Jeremy Clyde, British actor and singer
1941 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
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
1956 - Lena Olin, Swedish actress
1957 - Stephanie Mills, American actress, singer
1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor
1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1972 - Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
1972 - Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress

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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)
1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1418)
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)
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)
1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1958 - Michael Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
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)
1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899)
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)

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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 22 March is the earliest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (25th April is the latest).
World Water Day