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.

Events

238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are procclaimed 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.
1871 - In North Carolina, William Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1888 - The English 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 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 at 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.