March 22

March 22 is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of the year.

• 238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
• 1508 - Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
• 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
• 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Native Americans kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
• 1630 – Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
• 1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
• 1713 - The Tuscacora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
• 1739 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
• 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
• 1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
• 1809 – Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
• 1829 - The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France, Russia) create the borders of Greece.
• 1849 - The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
• 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• 1872 - Illinois becomes the first US state to require Sexual Equality in employment.
• 1873 - A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
• 1884 - Ecuador introduces the Sucre as its national currency.
• 1888 – The Football League is formed.
• 1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 1895 – First display (a private screening) of movies by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

• 1906 - The first England v France rugby union game is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
• 1912 - The Indian state of Bihar is formed out of the state of Bengal.
• 1916 - The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
• 1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• 1923 - Foster Hewitt makes the first radio broadcast of an ice hockey game.
• 1933 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
• 1939 – World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
• 1941 – Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
• 1942 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Regia Marina defeats Royal Navy in the Second Battle of Sirte.
• 1943 - World War II: The entire population of Khatyn, Belarus, is burned alive by German occupation forces.
• 1944 - World War II: A bombing raid on Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, kills 1,001 people.
• 1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1946 - The United Kingdom grants independence to Trans-Jordan.
• 1954 – Closed since 1939, the London gold market reopens.
• 1958 – Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia.
• 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• 1963 – Please Please Me becomes the first Beatles album released in the UK.
• 1965 – Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.
• 1972 - The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification (meaning confirmation).
• 1975 – A fire at the Brown's Ferry nuclear reactor in Decatur, Alabama, causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
• 1975 – In Stockholm, Sweden, Teach-In wins the twentieth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Ding-a-dong."
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1980 - Iraq invades Iran
• 1982 - NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on its third mission, STS-3.
• 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.
• 1989 – Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former secretary, begins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
• 1992 - USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after take-off from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 27 people.
• 1993 – Intel ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64-bit data path.
• 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
• 1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
• 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp has his closest approach to Earth.

• 2003 - Protests take place worldwide against the Iraq War, which began two days earlier.
• 2005 – Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols (women's college basketball), becomes the all-time leader in victories for both men's and women's college basketball, getting her 880th win as coach of the team.
• 2006 - Basque separatist organization ETA announces a permanent ceasefire.
• 2009 – The Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska erupts.
• 2012 - The Government of Mali is toppled in a military coup.
• 2013 - Over 37 people are killed after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
• 2013 - American Rock band My Chemical Romance break up.
• 2014 - Over 251 people are killed when a boat capsizes in Lake Albert in East Africa.
• 2014 - 2014 Oso mudslide: A massive mudslide in Oso, Washington kills 43 people.
• 2016 - 2016 Brussels bombings: Bomb attacks strike Brussels' International Airport and the Metro, killing at least 34 people.
• 2017 - 2017 Westminster attack: An attack by car and knife kills 4 people.

• 875 - William I, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918)
• 924 - Dinh Bo Linh, first Emperor of Vietnam (d. 979)
• 1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
• 1394 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer (d. 1449)
• 1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
• 1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
• 1517 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer (d. 1590)
• 1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
• 1609 – John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
• 1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
• 1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (d. 1779)
• 1759 - Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
• 1785 - Adam Sedgwick, English geologist (d. 1873)
• 1797 – Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)
• 1808 - David Swinson Maynard, American frontiersman and physician (d. 1873)
• 1814 - Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (d. 1857)
• 1817 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
• 1817 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
• 1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
• 1837 - Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Italian aristocrat (d. 1899)
• 1842 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1912)
• 1852 - Otakar Sevcik, Czech violinist and violin teacher (d. 1934)
• 1857 – Paul Doumer, President of France (d. 1932)
• 1860 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
• 1868 – Robert Millikan, American physicist (d. 1953)
• 1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
• 1878 - Marcel Théato, Luxembourgish-French runner (d. 1919)
• 1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
• 1884 - Arthur Vandenberg, United States Senator for Michigan (d. 1961)
• 1885 - Aryeh Levin, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1969)
• 1886 - August Rei, Estonian politician (d. 1963)
• 1887 – Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
• 1890 - Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, German lawyer and politician (d. 1945)
• 1892 - Johannes Semper, Estonian writer, translator and politician (d. 1970)
• 1896 - He Long, Chinese military leader (d. 1969)
• 1896 - Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-born American actor (d. 1964)
• 1897 - Ferruccio Novo, Italian football manager (d. 1974)
• 1899 - Ruth Page, American ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)

• 1902 – Madeleine Milhaud, French actress (d. 2008)
• 1902 - Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect (d. 1949)
• 1907 - Roger Blin, French actor and movie director (d. 1984)
• 1907 - James M. Gavin, American lieutenant general (d. 1990)
• 1907 - Lucia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
• 1908 – Louis L'Amour, American writer (d. 1988)
• 1908 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
• 1909 - Nathan Rosen, American-Israeli physicist (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1912 - Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish combat pilot (d. 2001)
• 1913 - Tom McCall, 30th Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
• 1913 - Lew Wasserman, American movie studio executive (d. 2002)
• 1915 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
• 1915 - John McConnell, American peace activist and environmentalist (d. 2012)
• 1917 - Paul Rogers, British stage actor (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1917 - Irving Kaplansky, Canadian mathematician, professor, writer and musician (d. 2006)
• 1918 – Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)
• 1919 - R. M. Hare, English philosopher (d. 2002)
• 1920 - Werner Klemperer, German actor and musician (d. 2000)
• 1920 - Ross Martin, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1921 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
• 1922 - John J. Gilligan, 62nd Governor of Ohio (d. 2013)
• 1922 - Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (d. 2007)
• 1924 - Paul Fussell, American writer, historian, writer and professor (d. 2012)
• 1924 - Al Neuharth, American businessman, writer and columnist (d. 2013)
• 1926 - Franca Falcucci, Italian politician (d. 2014)
• 1926 - Avo Uvezian, Lebanese-American jazz pianist, songwriter and cigar manufacturer (d. 2017)
• 1929 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer and composer (d. 1973)
• 1929 - Sergio Cervato, Italian footballer (d. 2005)
• 1929 - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist
• 1930 - Lynden Pindling, Prime Minister of the Bahamas (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Pat Robertson, American televangelist
• 1930 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
• 1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist
• 1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor
• 1931 - Leslie Thomas, Welsh writer (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Larry Evans, American chess player (d. 2010)
• 1932 - Els Borst, Dutch politician (d. 2014)
• 1933 - Michel Hidalgo, French footballer and coach
• 1933 - Abulhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
• 1934 - Bola Ajibola, Nigerian politician and jurist
• 1934 - Orrin Hatch, United States Senator for Utah (d. 2022)
• 1936 – Roger Whittaker, British singer
• 1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
• 1937 - Armin Hary, German athlete
• 1940 - Fausto Bertinotti, Italian Communist politician
• 1941 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
• 1941 - Cassam Uteem, 2nd President of Mauritius
• 1942 – Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
• 1943 - George Benson, American jazz and fusion guitarist and singer
• 1943 - Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 1976)
• 1945 - Paul Schockemöhle, German equestrian showjumper
• 1946 - Don Chaney, American basketball player and coach
• 1946 - Rudy Rucker, American mathematician and computer scientist
• 1946 - Harry Vanda, Dutch-Australian singer and musician
• 1947 - James Patterson, American writer
• 1948 – Bernard Dietz, German footballer
• 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer
• 1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American journalist
• 1949 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
• 1949 – John Toshack, Welsh footballer and manager
• 1949 - Brian Hanrahan, English journalist and broadcaster (d. 2010)
• 1950 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (d. 2012)
• 1950 - Mary Tamm, English actress (d. 2012)

• 1952 - Des Browne, Scottish politician
• 1952 - David Jones, Welsh politician
• 1953 - Vladimir Trofimenko, Russian athlete
• 1955 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
• 1955 - Pete Sessions, American politician
• 1955 – Valdis Zatlers, former President of Latvia
• 1956 - Maria Teresa, Cuban-born Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• 1958 - Laurie David, American blogger, activist and producer
• 1958 - Pete Wylie, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor, screenwriter, director and producer
• 1959 - Zhan Videnov, 45th Prime minister of Bulgaria
• 1963 – Giuseppe Galderisi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1965 - John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
• 1965 – Emma Wray, British actress
• 1966 - Arron Banks, British businessman and political donor
• 1966 - Brian Shaw, American basketball player
• 1966 - Samantha Robson, British actress
• 1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
• 1968 - Kazuya Maekawa, Japanese footballer
• 1968 - Euronymous, Norwegian guitarist and producer (d. 1993)
• 1969 - Robert Halfon, English politician
• 1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
• 1970 - Hwang Young-cho, South Korean marathon runner
• 1971 - Keegan Michael Key, American actor
• 1972 – Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
• 1972 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
• 1972 - Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1973 – Beverley Knight, British singer
• 1974 – Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
• 1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
• 1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress
• 1975 - Jiri Novak, Czech ice hockey player
• 1975 - Anne Dudek, American actress

• 1976 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress
• 1976 - Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
• 1976 - Victoria Atkins, English politician
• 1977 - John Otto, American musician
• 1978 - Björn Lind, Swedish cross-country skier
• 1981 - Mirel Radoi, Romanian footballer
• 1984 – Piotr Trochowski, German footballer
• 1985 – Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
• 1988 – Tania Raymonde, American actress
• 1989 - Eva Pereira, Cape Verdean middle-distance runner
• 1989 - Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
• 1990 - Lisa Mitchell, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1992 - Jessie Andrews, American pornographic actress
• 1994 - Kolohe Andino, American surfer
• 1997 - Harry Wilson, Welsh footballer
• 1998 - Paola Andino, American actress
• 1999 - Mick Schumacher, German racing driver

• 1081 - Boleslaw the Generous, King of Poland (b. 1042)
• 1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (b. 1278)
• 1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German bishop and historian (b. 1345)
• 1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1388)
• 1471 - George Podebrady, King of Bohemia (b. 1420)
• 1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Roman Catholic Archbishop in Sweden (b. 1488)
• 1602 – Agostino Carracci, Italian composer (b. 1557)
• 1685 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
• 1687 – Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer (b. 1632)
• 1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
• 1820 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)
• 1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
• 1840 - Etienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1844 - William Carroll, Governor of Tennessee (b. 1788)
• 1851 - Isaac Hill, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1789)
• 1863 - Opothleyahola, principal Native American chief of the Creek Nation (b. 1796)
• 1896 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)

• 1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese nationalist leader (b. 1882)
• 1914 - Theodor Borrer, Swiss aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
• 1917 - Yi Jun-yong, one of the Korean Joseon Dynasty's politicians (b. 1870)
• 1942 - Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 - William Donne, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1946 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Resistance activist (b. 1878)
• 1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
• 1955 - Ivan Subasic, Croatian-Yugoslavian politician (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Mike Todd, American movie producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 - Jose Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
• 1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian Communist leader (b. 1904)
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek military officer (b. 1912)
• 1993 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• 1994 - Dan Hartman, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1950)
• 1996 - Robert F. Overmyer, American test pilot and astronaut (b. 1936)
• 1996 - Billy Williamson, American musician (b. 1925)
• 2000 - Carlo Parola, Italian footballer (b. 1921)

• 2001 – Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish combat pilot (b. 1913)
• 2001 – William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
• 2002 - Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss conductor and violinist (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. 1936)
• 2006 - Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Jade Goody, British television personality (b. 1981)
• 2010 – Valentina Tolkunova, Russian singer (b. 1946)
• 2010 – James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical researcher (b. 1924)
• 2012 - Mohammed Merah, French Islamic Jihadist and spree killer (b. 1988), shot after siege
• 2013 - Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer (b. 1918)
• 2014 - Mickey Duff, Polish-born British boxing trainer and promoter (b. 1929)
• 2014 - Patrice Wymore, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2014 - Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian writer (b. 1928)
• 2014 - Yngve A. A. Larsson, Swedish medicine professor and diabetologist (b. 1917)
• 2014 - Riina Gerretz, Estonian pianist (b. 1939)
• 2015 - Arkady Arkanov, Russian writer and satirist (b. 1933)
• 2015 - Norman Scribner, American choral conductor (b. 1936)
• 2016 - Rob Ford, Canadian politician, former Mayor of Toronto (b. 1969)
• 2016 - Rita Gam, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2016 - Richard Bradford, American actor (b. 1934)
• 2016 - Glen Dawson, American rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1912)
• 2016 - Phife Dawg, American rap musician (b. 1970)
• 2016 - Santiago J. Erevia, American soldier (b. 1945)
• 2017 - Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager (b. 1934)
• 2017 - Sib Hashian, American drummer (b. 1949)
• 2017 - Joanne Kyger, American poet (b. 1934)
• 2017 - Sven-Erik Magnusson, Swedish singer (b. 1942)
• 2017 - Ronnie Moran, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 2017 - Khalid Masood, English terrorist (b. 1964)
• 2017 - Tomas Milian, Cuban-born Italian actor (b. 1933)
• 2017 - Lembit Ulfsak, Estonian actor (b. 1947)
• 2017 - Pete Hamilton, American racecar driver (b. 1942)
• 2017 - Marilyn McCord Adams, American philosopher and priest (b. 1943)
• 2017 - Piroska Oszoli, Hungarian painter (b. 1919)
• 2018 - Dick Gamble, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 2018 - René Houseman, Argentine footballer (b. 1953)
• 2018 - Wayne Huizenga, American businessman and entrepreneur (b. 1937)
• 2018 - Dariush Shayegan, Iranian philosopher and cultural theorist (b. 1935)

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