Today in World History
March 22 Events
1621: The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, led by governor John Carver, sign a peace treaty with Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags; Squanto serves as an interpreter between the two sides. According to the treaty, if a Wampanoag broke the peace, he would be sent to Plymouth for punishment; if a colonist broke the law, he would likewise be sent to the Wampanoags.
1621: , Hugo Grotius is smuggled out of prison in a chest. Religious tensions were running high in Holland, and Grotius tended to err on the side of tolerance - which made him many enemies. Grotius is remembered now for his plethora of legal writing, which earned him the name “father of international law.”
1622: The Jamestown Massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, about one-third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
1631: The 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 first direct British tax on American colonists, the Stamp Act, is passed by the British Parliament led by Prime Minister George Grenville.
1790: Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington.
1794: The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves.
Signed by George Washington in 1794, the Slave Trade Act of 1794 prohibited exporting slaves from the United States to any foreign place or country....
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1861: The first US nursing school is chartered at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston.
1871: William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state (North Carolina) to be removed from office by impeachment.
WILLIAM W. HOLDEN, the thirty-eighth and fortieth governor of North Carolina, was born near Hillsborough, North Carolina on November 24, 1818. His early education was attained in the common schools of his native state. He later studied law and in 1841 was admitted to the bar. Holden also...
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1872: Illinois becomes first state to require sexual equality in employment.
1873: The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico; it is now celebrated there as
Emancipation Day
Date: March 22, 1873 The Spanish National Assembly passed a law on March 22, 1873, that ended slavery in Puerto Rico. This decision came after years of hard work by Puerto Rican abolitionists like José Julián Acosta and Ramón Emeterio Betances. However, freedom did not come instantly for the...
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1887: Actor/comedian Chico Marx is born in New York City.
1893: The first women’s college basketball game is played at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
With each made basket counting as one point and the game lasting two 15-minute halves, a sophomore class team prevails over a freshmen team, 5-4. Men are not permitted inside the gym at the all-women college.
1894: The ice hockey competition for Lord Stanley's Cup is held for the first time, at the Victoria Rink in Montreal, Canada. The Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa HC, 3-1 to win the three-team challenge tournament.
1895: Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
1896: Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes at the Panhellenic Games.
1903: The US Anthracite Coal Commission, set up by President Theodore Roosevelt, submits its recommendations for shorter hours, a 10-per cent wage increase, and an 'open shop'.
1917: The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia.
1920: Werner 'Colonel Klink' Klemperer is born in Cologne, Germany.
1928: 'Easy Ed' Macauley, forward for the Boston Celtics, is born in St. Louis.
1929: A US Coast Guard vessel sinks a Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor.
1931: William Shatner is born in Montreal.
1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, called the Cullen-Harrson Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines. FDR also signed the Beer and Wine Revenue Act, a law that levies a federal tax on all alcoholic beverages to raise revenue for the federal government and gives individual states the option to further regulate the sale and distribution of beer and wine.
1933: Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.
1934: The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.
1941: The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation.
1941: James Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II.
1946: The first US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere, traveling over 50 miles upward.
1948: Andrew Lloyd Webber is born in London.
Webber's theatre credits include
************ Superstar, Evita, Cats and
The Phantom of the Opera.
1957: Elvis Presley's
All Shook Up is released.
1960: Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
The Complicated Discovery of the LASER
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1963: The Beatles release their debut album
Please Please Me on EMI's Parlophone label in the United Kingdom. It was the first of nine consecutive albums that would reach number one status in the UK.
1967: Muhammad Ali knocks out 35-year old Zora Folley in seven rounds to retain the heavyweight boxing title.
1968: President LBJ's daughter, Lynda Johnson, is ordered off a San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone.
1972: The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passed Congress in 1972 and was quickly ratified by 35 of the 38 states needed for it to become part of the Constitution. As the seven-year time limit for ratification approached in 1979, Congress and President Jimmy Carter controversially extended the deadline...
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1972: The Red Sox trade closer Sparky Lyle to the Yankees for Danny Cater.
Over the next seven years Sparky would pitch in 420 games with a 2.41 ERA, notching 141 saves as he helped the Bronx Bombers to appear in three World Series. Cater had an 0-4 debut and never provided the power fans were promised, finishing the season with 8 HR, 39 RBI and a .237 batting average.
This wasn't even the worst trade GM **** O'Connell made that offseason. Earlier he traded Jim Lonborg, Ken Brett, Billy Conigliaro, Joe Lahoud, Don Pavletich, and George Scott to the Milwaukee Brewers for Marty Pattin, Lew Krausse, Tommy Harper, and minor leaguer Pat Skrable. Despite the incredibly horrendous trades, the Red Sox were somehow in contention for the pennant until the last game of the season. If not for those trades they most likely would won the World Series.
The Red Sox pull off a bad trade with the Yankees. The move involved a reliever who would add a “spark” to the 1980 Phillies.
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1972: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is named the NBA MVP for the second straight year; he would go on to win six MVP titles.
1972: In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
The Court struck down a Massachusetts law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people for the purpose of preventing pregnancy, ruling that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The decision effectively legalized (straight) premarital sex in the United States.
Eisenstadt v. Baird
1975: A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama, causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1976: Reese Witherspoon is born in New Orleans.
1977: David Portnoy is born in Salem.
1978: Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1979: The NHL votes to accept four WHA teams: the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers.
1979: The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland.
1981: US 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents.
1984: Islander Bryan Trottier ties an NHL record by scoring a goal five seconds into a game at Boston Garden against the Bruins.
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.
1986: Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick upsets Pinklon Thomas by unanimous decision in Las Vegas to win WBC heavyweight title.
1988: The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.
Congress overrides Reagan civil rights veto, March 22, 1988
1989: US Supreme Court upholds one-person-one-vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate.
1991: American high school teacher Pamela Smart found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband.
1992: USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
1993: The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1993: The first
World Water Day is held.
1995: Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
1997: Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
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.
2014: 251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda.
2014: 43 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington
2014: The US and EU impose sanctions on Russia.
2016: Suicide bombings at Brussel's Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station leave 28 victims dead and 260 injured; ISIS claims responsibility.
2017: A terrorist attack on London's Westminster Bridge near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead, including a police officer, and injures 40.
2017: Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center.
2019: The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report (The Mueller Report) to Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and US Attorney William Barr.
2021: Ten people are shot dead in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, by 21 year-old gunman.
2022: Microplastics found in human blood for first time through new research conducted at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
2023: American Library Association says 2022 had highest number of calls to censor library books in the US in over 20 years, with 2,571 titles affected, up 38%, with LGBTQ+ books most requested.
2023: American software engineer Bob Metcalfe awarded computing's Turing Award for his 1972 development of Ethernet, a computer networking system that later became the industry standard.
2023: Former UK PM Boris Johnson is grilled by Government Privileges Committee over whether he intentionally misled parliament over COVID-19 rule breaches by his administration.
2023: New DNA analysis of composer Ludwig van Beethoven's hair reveals he probably died of cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis B, but doesn't explain his deafness.
2024: At least 145 people are killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
2024: Terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow during a concert kills 137; the Islamic State group claims responsibility.
2026: Air Canada Flight 8646 collides with an emergency vehicle on the runway at LaGuardia Airport. The pilot and co-pilot of the plane died in the collision.
