Historical Events on March 22, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on March 22nd This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado. |
| 2020 | Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. |
| 2020 | Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19. |
| 2019 | The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General. |
| 2019 | Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people. |
| 2017 | A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured. |
| 2017 | Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.[29][30][31] |
| 2016 | Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station. |
| 2013 | At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand. |
| 2006 | Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox. |
| 2004 | Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles. |
| 1997 | Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion. |
| 1997 | Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU. |
| 1995 | Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. |
| 1993 | The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. |
| 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. |
| 1992 | Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election. |
| 1988 | The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987. |
| 1982 | NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. |
| 1978 | Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| 1975 | A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. |
| 1972 | The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. |
| 1972 | In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. |
| 1963 | The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me. |
| 1960 | Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser. |
| 1946 | The United Kingdom grants full independence to Transjordan. |
| 1945 | World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany is heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.[21][22][23] |
| 1945 | The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt. |
| 1943 | World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118. |
| 1942 | World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte. |
| 1939 | Germany takes Memel from Lithuania. |
| 1934 | The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. |
| 1933 | Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines. |
| 1933 | Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau. |
| 1920 | Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attack the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh). |
| 1916 | Yuan Shikai abdicates as Emperor of China, restoring the Republic and returning to the Presidency. |
| 1913 | Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, is arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.[14] |
| 1906 | The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris. |
| 1896 | Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes. |
| 1895 | Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time. |
| 1894 | The Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada. |
| 1873 | The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico. |
| 1871 | In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment. |
| 1849 | The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara. |
| 1829 | In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. |
| 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. |
| 1784 | The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. |
| 1765 | The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies. |
| 1739 | Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. |
| 1638 | Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent. |
| 1631 | The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables. |
| 1622 | Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War. |
| 1621 | The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. |
| 1508 | Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire. |
| 1312 | Vox in excelso: Pope Clement V dissolves the Order of the Knights Templar. |
| 1185 | Battle of Yashima: the Japanese forces of the Taira clan are defeated by the Minamoto clan. |
| 871 | Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton. |
| 235 | Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. |
| 106 | Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea. |
Famous People Born on March 22
Here is a random list who born on March 22. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1896 | Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-American actor (d. 1964) |
| 1212 | Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235) |
| 1941 | Jeremy Clyde, English singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1982 | Piá, Brazilian footballer |
| 1937 | Armin Hary, German sprinter |
| 1920 | James Brown, American actor and singer (d. 1992) |
| 1974 | Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer |
| 1934 | May Britt, Swedish actress |
| 1797 | William I, German Emperor (d. 1888) |
| 1963 | Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of Peru |
Famous People Deaths On March 22
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 22. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (b. 1951) |
| 2015 | Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (b. 1933) |
| 1454 | John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1322 | Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (b. 1278) |
| 1942 | Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875) |
| 2002 | Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1917) |
| 2003 | Terry Lloyd, English journalist (b. 1952) |
| 1913 | Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882) |
| 2012 | Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (b. 1928) |
| 1144 | William of Norwich, child murder victim |
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