March 22
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[edit] Births
- 1912 - Wilfrid Brambell
- 1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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 Native Americans 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 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 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.