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.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

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 (1/3 of the colony's population)
1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1765 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is 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 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 of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumi�re (private screening).
1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania
1941 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1954 - The London gold market reopens (it was closed in 1939).
1958 - Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia
1960 - A.L. Schawlow & C.H. Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1975 - A fire at the Brown's Ferry nuclear reactor in Decatur, Alabama caused dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
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 were later dropped as completely unfounded.
1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS.
1995 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
1997 - 14 year, 10 month old Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.

Births

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)
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)
1908 - Louis L'Amour, author (d. 1988)
1909 - Gabrielle Roy, author (d. 1983)
1912 - Karl Malden, actor
1923 - Marcel Marceau, mime
1930 - Pat Robertson, televangelist
1930 - Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist
1931 - William Shatner, actor
1934 - Orrin Hatch, politician (Senator from Utah)
1935 - M. Emmet Walsh, actor
1937 - Armin Hary, German athlete
1940 - Haing S. Ngor, actor (d. 1996)
1941 - Bruno Ganz, actor
1943 - George Benson, jazz musician
1945 - Paul Schockem�hle, equestrian
1946 - Andr� Heller, artist
1946 - Rudy Rucker, science fiction author
1948 - Wolf Blitzer, television journalist
1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer
1949 - Fanny Ardant, actress
1952 - Bob Costas, sports commentator, broadcaster, talk show host
1956 - Lena Olin, actress
1959 - Matthew Modine, actor (Full Metal Jacket, Memphis Belle, Any Given Sunday)
1967 - Mario Cipollini, cyclist
1972 - Shawn Bradley, basketball player
1972 - Elvis Stojko, figure skater
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, actress
2233 - James T. Kirk, Starfleet Admiral

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, writer and poet, (b. 1749)
1842 - Stendahl, author
1896 - Thomas Hughes, novelist (b. 1822)
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of KMT, (b. 1882)
1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer
1958 - Michael Todd, Academy Award winning film producer
1978 - Karl Wallenda, acrobat (The Flying Wallendas)
1994 - Walter Lantz, cartoonist ("Woody Woodpecker")
1999 - David Strickland, American actor, (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hanna, animator, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio
2004 - Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas (b. 1937)

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).