March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years ). There are 284 days remaining.
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238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors 1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags .1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3 of the colony's population)1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.1765 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act which is the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.1871 - In North Carolina , William Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment .1888 - The Football League is formed1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.1895 - First display of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière (private screening).1939 - World War II : Germany takes Memel from Lithuania 1941 - Washington 's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity .1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo , Egypt .1954 - The London gold market reopens (it was closed in 1939 ).1958 - Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia 1960 - A.L. Schawlow & C.H. Townes receive the first patent for a laser .1965 - Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home .1975 - A fire at the Brown's Ferry nuclear reactor in Decatur, Alabama caused 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.1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges were later dropped as completely unfounded.1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS.1995 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space .1997 - 14 year, 10 month old Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
Births 1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor1599 - Anthony van Dyck , painter (d. 1641 )1797 - Wilhelm I , King of Prussia and German Emperor (d. 1888 )1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews , Anarchist , Abolitionist (d. 1886 )1817 - Braxton Bragg , Confederate general (d. 1876 )1861 - Walter Francis Willcox, statistician and Census Bureau head (d. 1964 )1878 - Michel Théato, Luxembourg athlete (d. 1919 )1887 - Chico Marx , comedian , actor (d. 1961 )1908 - Louis L'Amour, author (d. 1988 )1909 - Gabrielle Roy , author (d. 1983 )1912 - Karl Malden , actor1920 - Werner Klemperer , actor (d. 2000 )1923 - Marcel Marceau , mime 1928 - Ed Macauley Basketball Hall of Fame1930 - Pat Robertson , televangelist1930 - Stephen Sondheim , composer and lyricist 1931 - William Shatner , actor1933 - May Britt , Swedish actress1934 - Orrin Hatch , politician (Senator from Utah )1935 - M. Emmet Walsh , actor 1937 - Armin Hary , German athlete1940 - Haing S. Ngor , actor (d. 1996 )1941 - Bruno Ganz , actor1943 - George Benson , jazz musician1945 - Paul Schockemöhle, equestrian1946 - André Heller, artist1946 - Rudy Rucker , science fiction author 1948 - Wolf Blitzer , television journalist1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber , composer 1949 - Fanny Ardant , actress 1952 - Bob Costas , sports commentator, broadcaster, talk show host1955 - Pete Sessions , U.S. politician1956 - Lena Olin , actress1959 - Matthew Modine , actor (Full Metal Jacket Memphis Belle Any Given Sunday 1966 - Artis Pabriks , Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs1967 - Mario Cipollini , cyclist1972 - Shawn Bradley , basketball player1972 - Elvis Stojko , figure skater 1974 - Marcus Camby , NBA basketball player1976 - Reese Witherspoon , actress2233 - (fictional) James T. Kirk , Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise (in Star Trek )
Deaths 1471 - Pope Paul II , (b. 1418 )1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully , French composer , (b. 1632 )1820 - Stephen Decatur , sailor, (b. 1779 )1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , writer and poet, (b. 1749 )1842 - Stendhal , author1896 - Thomas Hughes , novelist (b. 1822 )1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of KMT , (b. 1882 )1945 - John Hessin Clarke , associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1857)1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, country music performer1958 - Michael Todd , Academy Award winning film producer 1978 - Karl Wallenda , acrobat (The Flying Wallendas)1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott , hall of fame track coach (b. 1915 )1994 - Walter Lantz , cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker )1999 - David Strickland , American actor, (b. 1969 )2001 - William Hanna , animator, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio2003 - Terry Lloyd , reporter2004 - Sheikh Ahmed Yassin , co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas (b. 1937 )
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March 22nd (2882 words)
The origin of the celebrated order of Templars is due to the piety of nine French knights, who in 1118 had followed Godfrey de Bouillon to the Crusades, and there dedicated themselves to insure the safety of the roads against the attacks of the infidels who maltreated the pilgrims to the Holy City. It was in France that the storm burst out with all violence: the unscrupulous king, Philip le Bel, with his minister Marigny, had cast a covetous eye upon the wealth acquired by the knights, and determinedly used every means to obtain it. March 22, 1724, was buried in Alnwick churchyard, Peter Cummin, a day-labourer reputed as upwards of a hundred and twenty years old.
22nd Bomb Group - The Red Raiders (3590 words)
The 22nd Bomb Group was constituted on 22 December 1939 and activated on 1 February 1940 . One of the arrivals landed at Archerfield airfield on 25 March 1942 and after skidding on wet grass ran into a house next to the airfield. On March 22nd 1942, the first flight of the 22nd air echelon arrived at Amberley Field - the first Air Force Group, completely armed to fly the Pacific en masse.
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