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

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Year Name
1212 Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1684 William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (d. 1764)
1938 Rein Etruk, Estonian chess player (d. 2012)
1941 Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (d. 2019)
1947 George Ferguson, English architect and politician, 1st Mayor of Bristol
1846 Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator and painter (d. 1886)
1499 Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (d. 1537)
1985 Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
1924 Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite (d. 1960)
1920 Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (d. 2000)
Famous People Deaths On March 22

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Date Name
1996 Don Murray, American drummer (b. 1945)
2018 Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (b. 1911)
1971 Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (b. 1893)
1864 Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
1999 Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (b. 1913)
2004 Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1943)
2019 Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1820 Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
1685 Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1840 Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)