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22 Mar 1349
Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews blaming them for the Black Death
22 Mar 1556
Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
22 Mar 1621
Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle Neth
22 Mar 1622
First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia 347 killed
22 Mar 1630
1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
22 Mar 1638
Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
22 Mar 1680
Parliament of Breisach accepts French sovereignty over Elzas
22 Mar 1692
Emperor Leopold I names Duke Earnest August of Braunschweig king
22 Mar 1775
Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the Westminster Parliament
22 Mar 1784
The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew Thailand
22 Mar 1794
Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
22 Mar 1809
Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne
22 Mar 1829
The three protecting powers (Britain France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
22 Mar 1841
A method for alkali starch extraction is patented in the US by Orlando Jones which is later applied to corn (cornstarch)
22 Mar 1862
San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
22 Mar 1871
William Holden of North Carolina becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
22 Mar 1872
Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
22 Mar 1873
Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico celebrated as Emancipation Day
22 Mar 1874
Young Mens Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
22 Mar 1894
Stanley Cup Victoria Rink Montreal Quebec Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa HC 3-1 to win 3-team challenge tournament
22 Mar 1895
Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
22 Mar 1896
Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 318 at the Panhellenic Games
22 Mar 1903
NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
22 Mar 1903
Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
22 Mar 1904
Bailundo Revolt ends after almost 2-years in Portuguese victory over Ovimbundu kingdom & allies
22 Mar 1907
The new Boer government in the Transvaal passes an Asiatic Registration Bill that restricts immigration from India
22 Mar 1907
69th Grand National Alf Newey wins aboard 81 chance Eremon
22 Mar 1912
Agnes Martin Macklin Canada Canadian-American abstract painter
22 Mar 1914
The St. PetersburgTampa Airboat Line becomes the worlds first scheduled airline
22 Mar 1917
The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
22 Mar 1922
The Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa which started as a strike by white mineworkers and became an armed rebellion against the state is brought to a brutal end by the police
22 Mar 1927
Federico Garcia Lorcas El Maleficio premieres in Madrid
22 Mar 1928
Noel Cowards musical This Year of Grace premieres in London
22 Mar 1929
KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
22 Mar 1929
USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
22 Mar 1929
88th Grand National Robert W. H. Everett wins aboard 1001 outsider Gregalach
22 Mar 1934
Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1500 injures 1000)
22 Mar 1935
Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY)
22 Mar 1939
Lithuania forced to give Memel territory to Germany
22 Mar 1941
Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
22 Mar 1943
SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
22 Mar 1944
American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
22 Mar 1945
Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
22 Mar 1946
1st US rocket to leave the Earths atmosphere (50 miles up)
22 Mar 1946
Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
22 Mar 1947
President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
22 Mar 1952
Wales wins Five Nations Rugby Championship Grand Slam & Triple Crown with a 9-5 win over France at St. Helens Ground Swansea
22 Mar 1953
Antonn Zpotock chosen as President of Czechoslovakia
22 Mar 1954
Northland Center the worlds largest shopping mall of the time opens in Oakpark Michigan
22 Mar 1954
Closed since 1939 the London bullion market reopens
22 Mar 1956
Musical Mr Wonderful with Sammy Davis Jr opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
22 Mar 1957
Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
22 Mar 1958
20th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
22 Mar 1962
I Can Get It For You Wholesale opens at Shubert NYC for 300 performances
22 Mar 1963
British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
22 Mar 1964
LPGA Western Open Golf Scenic Hills CC Carol Mann her 1st of 2 major titles by 2 shots from Ruth Jessen and Judy Kimball
22 Mar 1965
D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
22 Mar 1965
US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
22 Mar 1968
Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
22 Mar 1968
Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone
22 Mar 1969
Billy opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
22 Mar 1969
Come Summer closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
22 Mar 1969
31st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLAs 5th National Championship in 6 years
22 Mar 1970
Blood Red Roses opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
22 Mar 1971
Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
22 Mar 1972
Selling of the President opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances
22 Mar 1972
Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
22 Mar 1972
Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for 9 million
22 Mar 1972
Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
22 Mar 1972
In Eisenstadt v. Baird the US Supreme Court rules unmarried people have same right to contraception as married people.
22 Mar 1975
Dinge-competed wins Eurovision Song festival
22 Mar 1975
Dr Jazz closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
22 Mar 1975
Letter for Queen Victoria opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances
22 Mar 1975
AIAW Womens Basketball Tournament Delta State beats Immaculata 90-81 in Harrisonburg
22 Mar 1975
A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels
22 Mar 1975
20th Eurovision Song Contest Teach-In for Netherlands wins singing Ding-a-dong in Stockholm
22 Mar 1977
Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) government under Joop den Uyl falls
22 Mar 1978
The Ruttles All You Need is Cash is show on NBC-TV
22 Mar 1978
Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan Puerto Rico
22 Mar 1979
Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
22 Mar 1979
NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers Jets Nordiques & Whalers)
22 Mar 1979
Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinates Richard Sykes the British ambassador to the Netherlands in Den Haag
22 Mar 1979
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland
22 Mar 1981
US 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
22 Mar 1981
Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
22 Mar 1981
Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (11355.8)30k (12918.8)
22 Mar 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.
22 Mar 1986
Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (720.99)
22 Mar 1986
HBO launches boxings heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
22 Mar 1986
Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
22 Mar 1986
Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (159.30)
22 Mar 1986
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA)
22 Mar 1986
Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
22 Mar 1986
On My Own single released by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald (Billboard Song of the Year )
22 Mar 1988
WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final
22 Mar 1989
US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate
22 Mar 1989
Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
22 Mar 1990
Grapes of Wrath opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
22 Mar 1990
Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood not guilty of Valdez oil spill
22 Mar 1990
The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
22 Mar 1991
Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginaa seizing drugs
22 Mar 1991
NY Daily News begins using motto Forward with NY
22 Mar 1991
Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
22 Mar 1992
Private Lives closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances
22 Mar 1992
Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship
22 Mar 1992
England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
22 Mar 1992
Joseph A Molloy elected NY Yankee general partner
22 Mar 1992
US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia 27 die
22 Mar 1993
Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100 MIPS
22 Mar 1994
Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
22 Mar 1994
Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)
22 Mar 1994
South African government and ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
22 Mar 1994
Not a Moment Too Soon 2nd studio album by Tim McGraw is released (Billboard Album of the Year )
22 Mar 1995
Deputy Governor of Bank of England Rupert Pennant-Rea resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
22 Mar 1996
Cheryl Depew of Florida crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
22 Mar 1997
Sunset Boulevard closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances
22 Mar 1997
Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
22 Mar 1997
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
22 Mar 1998
18th Golden Raspberry Awards The Postman wins
22 Mar 1999
Amazed single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year )
22 Mar 2003
23rd Golden Raspberry Awards Swept Away wins
22 Mar 2004
Ahmed Yassin co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas and bodyguards killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles
22 Mar 2006
ETA armed Basque separatist group declares permanent ceasefire
22 Mar 2006
BC Ferries MV Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks 101 on board 2 presumed deaths
22 Mar 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
22 Mar 2008
French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets world record of 47.50 for 100m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships
22 Mar 2009
Mount Redoubt a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest
22 Mar 2009
Cricket Womens World Cup England defeats New Zealand by 4 wickets
22 Mar 2012
Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya
22 Mar 2012
Australias most wanted man Malcolm Naden is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester New South Wales
22 Mar 2012
Largest protest in Quebecs history occurs in Montreal with over 200000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
22 Mar 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
22 Mar 2013
37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae Thailand
22 Mar 2013
American rock band My Chemical Romance announce their break-up
22 Mar 2014
251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert Uganda
22 Mar 2014
43 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso Washington
22 Mar 2014
Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
22 Mar 2016
Suicide bombings at Brussels Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station leave around 28 victims dead and 260 injured ISIS claim responsibility
22 Mar 2017
Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center 5.5 million square miles
22 Mar 2017
Tomb of Jesus reopens after restoration in Jerusalem
22 Mar 2017
Terrorist attack on Londons Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament kills 4 including a police officer and injures 40
22 Mar 2018
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch between Hawaii and California has 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and increasing rapidly according to new research
22 Mar 2018
Musical Frozen opens on Broadway based on the film starring Patti Murin and Caissie Levy
22 Mar 1621
Dutch jurist Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius) escapes in book chest from Loevestein Castle in the Netherlands
22 Mar 1964
LPGA Western Open Womens Golf Scenic Hills CC Carol Mann her 1st of 2 major titles by 2 shots from Ruth Jessen and Judy Kimball
22 Mar 1969
31st NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 Bruins 3-peat center Lew Alcindor tournament Most Outstanding Player for 3rd consecutive year
22 Mar 2019
Mind-blowing discovery announced of 518 million year old fossil site in near Danshui river Hubei province China with thousands of unknown fossils well preserved
22 Mar 2019
Huge blast from a chemical factory so big it registers as an earthquake kills at least 64 with 28 missing in Yancheng eastern China
22 Mar 1775
British MP Edmund Burke makes a speech to the English Parliament advocating for peace with the American colonies
22 Mar 1913
Song Jiaoren leader of the Chinese Kuomintang Party shot at Shanghai Railway Station dies 2 day later (thought orchestrated by Kuomintang President Yuan Shikai)
22 Mar 1927
Federico Garcia Lorcas first play El Maleficio (The Butterflys Evil Spell) premieres in Madrid
22 Mar 1929
US Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
22 Mar 1934
Fire destroys Hakodate Japan kills 1500 injures 1000
22 Mar 1935
Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases in New York
22 Mar 1943
Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
22 Mar 1945
Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
22 Mar 1954
Northland Center the worlds largest shopping mall at the time opens in Oakpark Michigan
22 Mar 1963
The Beatles release their 1st album Please Please Me
22 Mar 1964
Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
22 Mar 1965
Dudley Senanayake wins his third in general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
22 Mar 1972
Musical The Selling of the President opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances
22 Mar 1975
Netherlands Ding-a-dong performed by Tech-In wins Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm Sweden
22 Mar 1978
Karl The Great Wallenda German acrobat (The Flying Wallendas) dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan Puerto Rico at 73
22 Mar 1978
The Rutles mockumentary All You Need is Cash debuts on NBC television
22 Mar 1865
Wilsons Raid 13480 cavalry troops led by Union General James H. Wilson destroys most of Confederate Alabama and Georgias arms-manufacturing and rail capabilities raid lasts through mid-April after Lees surrender natural resources useless to the [1] [2]
22 Mar 1982
3rd NASA Space Shuttle Mission Columbia 3 launches
22 Mar 1986
Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
22 Mar 1986
Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick upsets Pinklon Thomas by unanimous decision in Las Vegas to win WBC heavyweight title
22 Mar 1992
Herb Gardners play Conversations with My Father starring Judd Hirsch and Tony Shalhoub opens at Royale NYC for 462 performances
22 Mar 2010
NASAs rover Spirit gets caught in a sand trap on Mars and ceases communications with Earth [1]
22 Mar 2021
Sanctions imposed on Chinese officials over rights abuses against Uighurs in China by EU UK US and Canada
22 Mar 1565
Turkish Armada leaves Constantinople bound for the siege of Malta with about 193 ships
22 Mar 1865
Wilsons Raid 13480 cavalry troops led by Union General James H. Wilson destroys most of Confederate Alabama and Georgias arms-manufacturing and rail capabilities raid lasts through mid-April [1] [2]
22 Mar 1903
Niagara Falls runs out of water due to a drought
22 Mar 1972
Musical The Selling of the President opens at Shubert Theater NYC runs for 5 performances
22 Mar 1973
Joffrey Ballet revives Diaghilevs Parade at The City Center NYC
22 Mar 1975
Dr Jazz closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
22 Mar 1979
Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinates Richard Sykes the British ambassador to the Netherlands in The Hague
22 Mar 1994
Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid is the first woman to win architectures Pritzker Prize [1]
22 Mar 2019
US Special Council Robert S. Mueller submits his findings on the 2016 election (The Mueller Report) to Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and US Attorney William Barr
22 Mar 1870
Ohio State University is established as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College a public land grant college in Columbus. Ohio
22 Mar 1944
American movie star James Stewart flies his 12th combat mission leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
22 Mar 1968
Antonn Novotn resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
22 Mar 1977
Dutch coalition government under Labour Party (PvdA) leader Joop den Uyl falls
22 Mar 2020
India puts 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19
22 Mar 2021
10 people shot dead at a supermarket in Boulder Colorado by 21 year-old gunman
22 Mar 2021
Evanston Illinois votes to become first US city to pay reparations to Black residents for past discriminations and effects of slavery giving 400000 to each household
22 Mar 2021
Worlds largest painting The Journey of Humanity by British artist Sacha Jafri sells in Dubai for 62m to raise funds for childrens charities
22 Mar 2022
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declares a state of emergency after tornadoes tear through New Orleans suburbs killing at least one person [1]
22 Mar 2022
Microplastics found in human blood for first time through new research conducted at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands [1]
22 Mar 2023
Abel Prize for Mathematics (equivalent to a Nobel Prize) awarded to ArgentinianAmerican Luis Caffarelli for his work on partial differential equations [1]
22 Mar 2023
American Library Association says 2022 had highest number of calls to censor library books in the US in over 20 years with 2571 titles affected up 38% with LGBTQ books most requested [1]
22 Mar 2023
American software engineer Bob Metcalfe awarded computings Turing Award for developing Ethernet a computer networking system now the industry standard [1]
22 Mar 1387
Vilnius granted a city charter by Jogaila King of Poland allowing it to be self-governing [1]
22 Mar 1442
Battle of Hermannstadt Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi defeats an Ottoman force led by Mezid Bey near modern-day Sibiu in Romania
22 Mar 1622
First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans around Jamestown Virginia 347 killed
22 Mar 1764
Dutch expeditionary corps launch attack on slave armies and settlements during Bernice rebellion (modern Guyana) - first major slave rebellion in South America [1]
22 Mar 1785
Dutch Republic leader Quint Ondaatje 26) demands democracy in speech at Utrecht city hall
22 Mar 1933
Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp opens [1]
22 Mar 1975
Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village opens at Walt Disney World Resort
22 Mar 1978
Karl Wallenda German acrobat (The Flying Wallendas) dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan Puerto Rico at 73
22 Mar 1991
American high school teacher Pamela Smart found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
22 Mar 2024
British runner Jasmin Paris is the first woman and 20th person to complete one of the worlds hardest ultramarathons - the Barkley Marathons Tennessee with one minute 39 seconds to spare [1]
22 Mar 2024
Terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow during a concert kills 137 the Islamic State group claims responsibility [1]
22 Mar 1895
Auguste and Louis Lumire show their first movie to an invited audience
22 Mar 1896
Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins the first modern marathon in 318 at the Panhellenic Games
22 Mar 1933
First Nazi concentration camp Dachau opens as a camp for political prisoners [1]
22 Mar 1954
Northland Center the worlds largest shopping mall at the time opens in Oak Park Michigan
22 Mar 1963
The Beatles release their first album Please Please Me
22 Mar 1972
In Eisenstadt v. Baird the US Supreme Court rules that unmarried people have the same right to contraception as married people
22 Mar 1989
Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally cuts his throat
22 Mar 2017
4th World Baseball Classic United States wins the international tournament with an 8-0 win over Puerto Rico at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles California
22 Mar 2018
Musical Frozen opens on Broadway based on the film and starring Patti Murin and Caissie Levy
22 Mar 2024
British runner Jasmin Paris is the first woman and 20th person to complete one of the worlds hardest ultramarathons the Barkley Marathons in Tennessee with one minute and 39 seconds to spare [1]