Notable Historical Events on March 22nd
March 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
238 |
Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. |
752 |
Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd) |
871 |
Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
1349 |
Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) |
1556 |
Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury |
1594 |
French King Henri IV festival in Paris |
1621 |
Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Neth |
1622 |
1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain |
1630 |
1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston) |
1638 |
Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony |
1680 |
Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas |
1692 |
Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king |
1765 |
Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists |
1775 |
Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the Westminster Parliament |
1778 |
Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state |
1784 |
The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. |
1790 |
Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington |
1794 |
Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries |
1809 |
Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne. |
1822 |
NY Horticultural Society founded |
1829 |
The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. |
1841 |
Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones) |
1861 |
1st US nursing school chartered |
1862 |
San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation |
1865 |
Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA |
1871 |
William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment |
1872 |
Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment |
1873 |
Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico |
1874 |
Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC |
1882 |
Edmunds Act adopted by the US to suppress polygamy, 1300 men later imprisoned under the act |
1888 |
English Football League established |
1894 |
Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever) |
1895 |
Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience |
1896 |
Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18) |
1903 |
NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale |
1903 |
Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought |
1903 |
The Anthracite Coal Commission, set up by President Roosevelt, submits its recommendations for shorter hours, a 10-per cent wage increase, and an 'open shop' |
1907 |
The new Boer government in the Transvaal passes an Asiatic Registration Bill, that restricts immigration from India |
1912 |
Agnes Martin, Macklin Canada, Canadian-American abstract painter |
1914 |
World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins |
1922 |
The Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa is brought to a brutal end by the police; the rebellion started as a strike by white mineworkers on and became an open armed rebellion against the state |
1923 |
The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt. |
1927 |
Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio" premieres in Madrid |
1928 |
Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace" premieres in London |
1929 |
66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes |
1929 |
KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions |
1929 |
USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor |
1933 |
FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal |
1934 |
1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Ga |
1934 |
Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) |
1935 |
Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY) |
1939 |
Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany |
1941 |
Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation |
1941 |
Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II |
1942 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
1943 |
Dutch work week extended to 54 hour |
1943 |
Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium |
1943 |
SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children |
1944 |
600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin |
1944 |
American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin |
1945 |
Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt |
1945 |
US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein |
1946 |
1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) |
1946 |
Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan |
1947 |
President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty |
1952 |
Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 |
1953 |
AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia |
1953 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open |
1954 |
1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich |
1954 |
Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens. |
1956 |
"Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances |
1956 |
Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger |
1956 |
Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC |
1957 |
Earthquake gives SF shakes |
1957 |
Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian |
1958 |
20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72 |
1958 |
Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1959 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament |
1960 |
1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes |
1962 |
"I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 perfs |
1963 |
Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me" |
1963 |
Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler |
1963 |
Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner |
1964 |
Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section |
1964 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational |
1965 |
D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) |
1965 |
US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong |
1967 |
Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
1968 |
Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia |
1968 |
Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone |
1968 |
Student riot in Nanterre near Paris |
1969 |
"Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance |
1969 |
"Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances |
1969 |
31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years |
1970 |
"Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC |
1970 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
1971 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1971 |
Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland |
1972 |
"Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 perfs |
1972 |
Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) |
1972 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP |
1972 |
Nick Mileti purchases Cleve Indians for $9 million |
1972 |
Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle |
1975 |
"Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival |
1975 |
"Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1975 |
"Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 perfs |
1975 |
Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship |
1975 |
Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong" |
1975 |
Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens |
1975 |
A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels. |
1977 |
Dutch Den Uyl government falls |
1977 |
Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India |
1977 |
Uyl government falls |
1978 |
France performs nuclear test |
1978 |
Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated |
1978 |
Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV |
1978 |
Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
1979 |
Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt |
1979 |
NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers) |
1979 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinate Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in Den Haag |
1979 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland |
1981 |
1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents |
1981 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
1981 |
Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6 |
1981 |
Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8) |
1982 |
3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched |
1982 |
Iran offensive against Iraq |
1983 |
Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president |
1984 |
Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL record scores 5 seconds into game |
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. |
1985 |
NASA launches Intelsat VA |
1986 |
Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99) |
1986 |
HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament |
1986 |
Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1 |
1986 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS) |
1986 |
Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30) |
1986 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA) |
1986 |
Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1987 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open |
1988 |
Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill |
1988 |
WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final |
1989 |
Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years |
1989 |
US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate |
1989 |
Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat. |
1990 |
"Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances |
1990 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston |
1990 |
Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill |
1990 |
The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games |
1991 |
Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at U of Va seizing drugs |
1991 |
NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY" |
1991 |
Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband |
1992 |
"Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances |
1992 |
Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship |
1992 |
England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final |
1992 |
Joseph A Molloy elected NY Yankee general partner |
1992 |
US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die |
1993 |
Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS |
1994 |
Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton) |
1994 |
Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec) |
1994 |
South African government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland |
1994 |
Soyuz TM-21 lands |
1995 |
Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist |
1996 |
Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl |
1996 |
STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit |
1997 |
"Sunset Boulevard" closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances |
1997 |
Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU) |
1997 |
Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA) |
1998 |
18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins |
2003 |
23rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Swept Away wins |
2004 |
Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles. |
2006 |
ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire. |
2006 |
BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia 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. |
2008 |
The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008. |
2009 |
Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest. |
2011 |
Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation |
2012 |
Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education |
2012 |
Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New South Wales |
2012 |
Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya |
2012 |
Ireland returns to recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 following a fall of 1.1% in the third quarter |
2013 |
37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand |
2014 |
251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda |
2014 |
30 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington |
2016 |
Jury Tacks On $25 Million to Gawker's Bill in Hulk Hogan Case |
2016 |
Obama to end Cuba trip with dissident meeting, baseball and hope |
2016 |
US says it may not need Apple to open San Bernardino iPhone |
2016 |
White House says has shared lists of political prisoners with Cuba |
2016 |
Apple unveils smaller iPhone and iPad Pro |
2017 |
USA beats Japan, reaches World Baseball Classic final for the first time |
2017 |
Apple launches red iPhone 7 and video app |
2018 |
Zuckerberg says Facebook 'made mistakes' on Cambridge Analytica |
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