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Date | Description | Type |
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22nd of March 0238 | EVENT | Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors. |
22nd of March 1621 | EVENT | The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. |
22nd of March 1622 | EVENT | Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population. |
22nd of March 1630 | EVENT | The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables. |
22nd of March 1638 | EVENT | Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent. |
22nd of March 1739 | EVENT | Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. |
22nd of March 1765 | EVENT | The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies. |
22nd of March 1784 | EVENT | The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. |
22nd of March 1809 | EVENT | Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne. |
22nd of March 1829 | EVENT | The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. |
22nd of March 1849 | EVENT | The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara. |
22nd of March 1871 | EVENT | In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment. |
22nd of March 1873 | EVENT | A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery. |
22nd of March 1888 | EVENT | In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, is founded. |
22nd of March 1894 | EVENT | The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts. |
22nd of March 1906 | EVENT | First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris |
22nd of March 1916 | EVENT | The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored. |
22nd of March 1920 | EVENT | Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh). |
22nd of March 1923 | EVENT | The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt. |
22nd of March 1939 | EVENT | World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania. |
22nd of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte. |
22nd of March 1943 | EVENT | World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces. |
22nd of March 1945 | EVENT | The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt. |
22nd of March 1954 | EVENT | Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens. |
22nd of March 1960 | EVENT | Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser |
22nd of March 1972 | EVENT | The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. |
22nd of March 1975 | EVENT | A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. |
22nd of March 1978 | EVENT | Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
22nd of March 1982 | EVENT | NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. |
22nd of March 1984 | EVENT | 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. |
22nd of March 1989 | EVENT | Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat. |
22nd of March 1992 | EVENT | USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft. |
22nd of March 1993 | EVENT | The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. |
22nd of March 1995 | EVENT | Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. |
22nd of March 1997 | EVENT | The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth. |
22nd of March 1997 | EVENT | Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women's World Figure Skating Champion. |
22nd of March 2004 | EVENT | 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 AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles. |
22nd of March 2006 | EVENT | ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire. |
22nd of March 2006 | EVENT | Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox. |
22nd of March 2009 | EVENT | Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest. |
22nd of March 0841 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885) |
22nd of March 0875 | BIRTHDAY | William I, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918) |
22nd of March 1212 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235) |
22nd of March 1366 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399) |
22nd of March 1459 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519) |
22nd of March 1503 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583) |
22nd of March 1599 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641) |
22nd of March 1609 | BIRTHDAY | King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672) |
22nd of March 1663 | BIRTHDAY | August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727) |
22nd of March 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757) |
22nd of March 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799) |
22nd of March 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783) |
22nd of March 1759 | BIRTHDAY | Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818) |
22nd of March 1797 | BIRTHDAY | William I, German Emperor (d. 1888) |
22nd of March 1808 | BIRTHDAY | David Swinson Maynard, American frontiersman and physician (d. 1873) |
22nd of March 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886) |
22nd of March 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876) |
22nd of March 1818 | BIRTHDAY | John Ainsworth Horrocks, English explorer of South Australia (d. 1846) |
22nd of March 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Otakar Sevcik, Czech violinist and violin teacher (d. 1934) |
22nd of March 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Doumer, French President (d. 1932) |
22nd of March 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940) |
22nd of March 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913) |
22nd of March 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) |
22nd of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino statesman (d. 1964) |
22nd of March 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Theato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919) |
22nd of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Quigley, Canadian-born American sports official (d. 1960) |
22nd of March 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Aryeh Levin, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1969) |
22nd of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961) |
22nd of March 1896 | BIRTHDAY | He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969) |
22nd of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991) |
22nd of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine Milhaud, French actress (d. 2008) |
22nd of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | James Gavin, American general and ambassador (d. 1990) |
22nd of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Lucia Santos, Portuguese nun and mystic (d. 2005) |
22nd of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988) |
22nd of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991) |
22nd of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983) |
22nd of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (d. 1979) |
22nd of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985) |
22nd of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009) |
22nd of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002) |
22nd of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Sabiha Gokcen, Turkish combat pilot (d. 2001) |
22nd of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983) |
22nd of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005) |
22nd of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004) |
22nd of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Kaplansky, American mathematician (d. 2006) |
22nd of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Cheddi Jagan, Guyanan politician (d. 1997) |
22nd of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981) |
22nd of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (d. 2000) |
22nd of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004) |
22nd of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (d. 2007) |
22nd of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Neuharth, American businessman |
22nd of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Wendell, American television announcer (d. 1999) |
22nd of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001) |
22nd of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator |
22nd of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Macauley, American basketball player |
22nd of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist |
22nd of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator |
22nd of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Robertson, American televangelist |
22nd of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist |
22nd of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
22nd of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | William Shatner, Canadian actor |
22nd of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist (d. 2010) |
22nd of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian politician |
22nd of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | May Britt, Swedish actress |
22nd of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994) |
22nd of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Orrin Hatch, American politician |
22nd of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | M. Emmet Walsh, American actor |
22nd of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Whittaker, British singer |
22nd of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Carey, American labor leader |
22nd of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Angelo Badalamenti, American composer |
22nd of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Armin Hary, German athlete |
22nd of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player |
22nd of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996) |
22nd of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Clyde, British actor and musician (Chad and Jeremy) |
22nd of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Collins, American poet |
22nd of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor |
22nd of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Cassam Uteem, Mauritian political figure |
22nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bernd Herzsprung, German actor |
22nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician |
22nd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Pound, Canadian amateur sports executive |
22nd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | George Benson, American musician |
22nd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Relf, English musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976) |
22nd of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Roth, American screenwriter |
22nd of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Don Chaney, American basketball player and head coach |
22nd of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rivka Golani, Israeli violist |
22nd of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Rucker, American author |
22nd of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | James Patterson, American author |
22nd of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist |
22nd of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer |
22nd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Fanny Ardant, French actress |
22nd of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player |
22nd of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Costas, American sports commentator |
22nd of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Dee Daugherty, American drummer |
22nd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Olin, Swedish actress |
22nd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Sessions, American politician |
22nd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Valdis Zatlers, Latvian politician |
22nd of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Generosa Ammon, American murder suspect (d. 2003) |
22nd of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Bucher, German footballer |
22nd of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer |
22nd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie David, American political activist |
22nd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Wylie, British singer/songwriter |
22nd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Avraham Fried, American entertainer |
22nd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive |
22nd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Modine, American actor |
22nd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992) |
22nd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Wray, English actress |
22nd of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician |
22nd of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Shaw, American basketball player |
22nd of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist |
22nd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Euronymous, Norwegian musician (d. 1993) |
22nd of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist |
22nd of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer |
22nd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Iben Hjejle, Danish actress |
22nd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Will Yun Lee, American actor |
22nd of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Bradley, American basketball player |
22nd of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006) |
22nd of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater |
22nd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Nedney, American football player |
22nd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Beverley Knight, English singer |
22nd of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Camby, American basketball player |
22nd of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer |
22nd of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kidada Jones, American actress |
22nd of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Gert Peens, South African-born Italian rugby player |
22nd of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cole Hauser, American actor |
22nd of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jiri Novak, Czech tennis player |
22nd of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Fletcher, American sports agent |
22nd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player |
22nd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Jean Lopez, American pundit |
22nd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Reese Witherspoon, American actress |
22nd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kellie Shanygne Williams, American actress |
22nd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Porter, American football player |
22nd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Poti, American ice hockey player |
22nd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron North, American musician |
22nd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player |
22nd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer |
22nd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane) |
22nd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer |
22nd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jakob Fuglsang, Danish professional cyclist |
22nd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Jenkins, American football player |
22nd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Masterson, American baseball player |
22nd of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | David Choi, American musician |
22nd of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ike Davis, American baseball player |
22nd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Tania Raymonde, American actress |
22nd of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Mitchell, Australian singer/songwriter |
22nd of March 1322 | DEATH | Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (Born 1278) |
22nd of March 1418 | DEATH | Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian |
22nd of March 1421 | DEATH | Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (Born 1388) |
22nd of March 1544 | DEATH | Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (Born 1488) |
22nd of March 1602 | DEATH | Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (Born 1557) |
22nd of March 1685 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (Born 1638) |
22nd of March 1687 | DEATH | Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (Born 1632) |
22nd of March 1758 | DEATH | Jonathan Edwards, American minister (Born 1703) |
22nd of March 1758 | DEATH | Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (Born 1670) |
22nd of March 1772 | DEATH | John Canton, English physicist (Born 1718) |
22nd of March 1820 | DEATH | Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (Born 1779) |
22nd of March 1832 | DEATH | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (Born 1749) |
22nd of March 1840 | DEATH | Etienne Bobillier, French mathematician (Born 1798) |
22nd of March 1896 | DEATH | Thomas Hughes, English novelist (Born 1822) |
22nd of March 1913 | DEATH | Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (Born 1882) |
22nd of March 1924 | DEATH | William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (Born 1848) |
22nd of March 1934 | DEATH | Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (Born 1870) |
22nd of March 1945 | DEATH | John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1857) |
22nd of March 1952 | DEATH | Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (Born 1870) |
22nd of March 1955 | DEATH | Ivan Subasic, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (Born 1892) |
22nd of March 1958 | DEATH | Mike Todd, American film producer (Born 1909) |
22nd of March 1960 | DEATH | Jose Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (Born 1904) |
22nd of March 1966 | DEATH | John Harlin, American mountaineer (Born 1935) |
22nd of March 1974 | DEATH | Peter Revson, American racecar driver (Born 1939) |
22nd of March 1977 | DEATH | A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (Born 1904) |
22nd of March 1978 | DEATH | Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (Born 1905) |
22nd of March 1981 | DEATH | James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (Born 1915) |
22nd of March 1986 | DEATH | Mark Dinning, American singer (Born 1933) |
22nd of March 1986 | DEATH | Charles Starrett, American actor (Born 1903) |
22nd of March 1986 | DEATH | Olive Deering, American actress (Born 1918) |
22nd of March 1987 | DEATH | Odysseas Angelis, Greek officer involved in the coup of April 1967 (Born 1912) |
22nd of March 1990 | DEATH | Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (Born 1928) |
22nd of March 1991 | DEATH | Leon Balcer, French Canadian politician (Born 1917) |
22nd of March 1991 | DEATH | Gloria Holden, American film actress (Born 1908) |
22nd of March 1991 | DEATH | Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (Born 1934) |
22nd of March 1993 | DEATH | Steve Olin, American baseball player (Born 1965) |
22nd of March 1994 | DEATH | Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (Born 1950) |
22nd of March 1994 | DEATH | Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (Born 1900) |
22nd of March 1996 | DEATH | Billy Williamson, American musician with Bill Haley & His Comets (Born 1925) |
22nd of March 1996 | DEATH | Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (Born 1945) |
22nd of March 1999 | DEATH | David Strickland, American actor (Born 1969) |
22nd of March 2001 | DEATH | Sabiha Gokcen, Turkish combat pilot (Born 1913) |
22nd of March 2001 | DEATH | William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (Born 1910) |
22nd of March 2003 | DEATH | Terry Lloyd, English reporter (Born 1952) |
22nd of March 2004 | DEATH | Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (Born c. 1937) |
22nd of March 2005 | DEATH | Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (Born 1913) |
22nd of March 2006 | DEATH | Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (Born 1921) |
22nd of March 2006 | DEATH | Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (Born 1937) |
22nd of March 2006 | DEATH | Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (Born 1939) |
22nd of March 2007 | DEATH | Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Born 1918) |
22nd of March 2008 | DEATH | Cachao Lopez, Cuban mambo musician (Born 1918) |
22nd of March 2009 | DEATH | Leon Walker, British rugby player (Born 1988) |
22nd of March 2009 | DEATH | Jade Goody, British reality TV celebrity (Born 1981) |
22nd of March 2010 | DEATH | James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist (Born 1924) |