What happened on March 22? There are more than 247 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About March 22
March 22 is the 82nd day of the year 2024. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 12th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Bridgewater, Massachusetts 02324 sunrise occured at 06:40 AM and sunset occured at 07:00 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Aquamarine while the mystical birthstone is Jade.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 313 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For March 22
- 238Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
- 1621The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
- 1622Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.
- 1630The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- 1638Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
- 1739Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
- 1765The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
- 1784The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
- 1809Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
- 1829The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
- 1849The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
- 1871In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- 1873A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
- 1888In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
- 1894The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
- 1906First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
- 1916The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
- 1920Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
- 1923The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- 1939World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
- 1942World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy’s Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
- 1943World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
- 1945The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1954Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
- 1960Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
- 1972The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
- 1975A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
- 1978Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1982NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
- 1984Teachers 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.
- 1989Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
- 1992USAir 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.
- 1993The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
- 1995Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
- 1997Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women’s World Figure Skating Champion.
- 1997The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
- 2004Ahmed 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.
- 2006ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
- 2006Three 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.
- 2009Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
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Who Were Born On March 22?
- 841Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885)
- 875William I, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918)
- 1212Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
- 1366Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
- 1459Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
- 1503Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
- 1599Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
- 1609King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)
- 1663August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
- 1712Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
- 1720Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
- 1723Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
- 1759Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
- 1797William I, German Emperor (d. 1888)
- 1808David Swinson Maynard, American frontiersman and physician (d. 1873)
- 1812Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
- 1817Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
- 1818John Ainsworth Horrocks, English explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
- 1846Randolph Caldecott, British artist and illustrator
- 1852Otakar Ševčík, Czech violinist and violin teacher (d. 1934)
- 1857Paul Doumer, French President (d. 1932)
- 1860Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
- 1866Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
- 1868Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
- 1869Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino statesman (d. 1964)
- 1878Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)
- 1880Ernie Quigley, Canadian-born American sports official (d. 1960)
- 1885Aryeh Levin, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1969)
- 1887Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
- 1896He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
- 1901Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
- 1902Madeleine Milhaud, French actress (d. 2008)
- 1903Bill Holman, American cartoonist (Smokey Stover) (d. 1987)
- 1907James Gavin, American general and ambassador (d. 1990)
- 1907Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun and mystic (d. 2005)
- 1908Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
- 1908Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
- 1909Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983)
- 1910Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (d. 1979)
- 1912Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1912Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985)
- 1913Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
- 1913Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish combat pilot (d. 2001)
- 1913Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
- 1915Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
- 1917Irving Kaplansky, American mathematician (d. 2006)
- 1917Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1918Cheddi Jagan, Guyanan politician (d. 1997)
- 1920Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)
- 1920Werner Klemperer, German-born actor (d. 2000)
- 1921Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
- 1923Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (d. 2007)
- 1924Allen Neuharth, American businessman
- 1924Bill Wendell, American television announcer (d. 1999)
- 1928Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
- 1928E.D. Hirsch. American social commentator
- 1928Ed Macauley, American basketball player
- 1929Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist
- 1930Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
- 1930Pat Robertson, American televangelist
- 1930Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
- 1931Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1931William Shatner, Canadian actor
- 1932Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist (d. 2010)
- 1933Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian politician
- 1933May Britt, Swedish actress
- 1934Larry Martyn, English comedy actor (d. 1994)
- 1934Orrin Hatch, American politician
- 1935M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
- 1936Roger Whittaker, British singer
- 1936Ron Carey, American labor leader
- 1937Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
- 1937Armin Hary, German athlete
- 1937Frank Pulli, American Major League Umpire
- 1940Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
- 1941Billy Collins, American poet
- 1941Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
- 1941Cassam Uteem, Mauritian political figure
- 1941Jeremy Clyde, British actor and musician (Chad and Jeremy)
- 1942Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
- 1942Dick Pound, Canadian amateur sports executive
- 1942Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician
- 1943George Benson, American musician
- 1943Keith Relf, English musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
- 1945Eric Roth, American screenwriter
- 1946Don Chaney, American basketball player and head coach
- 1946Rivka Golani, Israeli violist
- 1946Rudy Rucker, American author
- 1947James Patterson, American author
- 1948Andrew Lloyd Webber, English theatre composer
- 1948Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
- 1949Brian Hanrahan, English journalist and broadcaster (d.2010)
- 1949Fanny Ardant, French actress
- 1950Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player
- 1952Bob Costas, American sports commentator
- 1952Jay Dee Daugherty, American drummer
- 1955Lena Olin, Swedish actress
- 1955Pete Sessions, American politician
- 1955Valdis Zatlers, Latvian politician
- 1956Generosa Ammon, American murder suspect (d. 2003)
- 1957Jürgen Bucher, German footballer
- 1957Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
- 1958Laurie David, American political activist
- 1958Pete Wylie, British singer/songwriter
- 1959Avraham Fried, American entertainer
- 1959Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive
- 1959Matthew Modine, American actor
- 1965Emma Wray, English actress
- 1965John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
- 1966Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
- 1966Brian Shaw, American basketball player
- 1967Bernie Gallacher, British footballer (Aston Villa) (d. 2011)
- 1967Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
- 1968Euronymous, Norwegian musician (d. 1993)
- 1970Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
- 1970Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
- 1971Iben Hjejle, Danish actress
- 1971Will Yun Lee, American actor
- 1972Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1972Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
- 1972Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
- 1973Beverley Knight, English singer
- 1973Joe Nedney, American football player
- 1974Gert Peens, South African-born Italian rugby player
- 1974Kidada Jones, American actress
- 1974Marcus Camby, American basketball player
- 1974Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
- 1975Anne Dudek, American actress
- 1975Cole Hauser, American actor
- 1975Jason Fletcher, American sports agent
- 1975Jiří Novák, Czech tennis player
- 1976Kathryn Jean Lopez, American pundit
- 1976Kellie Shanygne Williams, American actress
- 1976Reese Witherspoon, American actress
- 1976Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
- 1977Joey Porter, American football player
- 1978Tom Poti, American ice hockey player
- 1979Aaron North, American musician
- 1979Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
- 1980Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer
- 1980Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
- 1985Jakob Fuglsang, Danish professional cyclist
- 1985Justin Masterson, American baseball player
- 1985Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
- 1985Mike Jenkins, American football player
- 1986David Choi, American musician
- 1987Ike Davis, American baseball player
- 1988Tania Raymonde, American actress
- 1989Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
- 1990Lisa Mitchell, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1995Nick Robinson, American actor
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Who Died On March 22?
- 1322Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
- 1418Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
- 1421Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (b. 1388)
- 1544Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
- 1602Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
- 1685Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
- 1687Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)
- 1758Jonathan Edwards, American minister (b. 1703)
- 1758Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
- 1772John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
- 1820Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)
- 1832Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
- 1840Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
- 1896Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)
- 1913Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
- 1924William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)
- 1934Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
- 1945John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)
- 1952Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
- 1955Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
- 1958Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
- 1960José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
- 1966John Harlin, American mountaineer (b. 1935)
- 1974Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b. 1939)
- 1977A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
- 1978Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
- 1981James “Jumbo” Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
- 1986Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1986Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
- 1986Olive Deering, American actress (b. 1918)
- 1987Odysseas Angelis, Greek officer involved in the coup of April 1967 (b. 1912)
- 1990Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
- 1991Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
- 1991Gloria Holden, American film actress (b. 1908)
- 1991Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
- 1993Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
- 1994Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
- 1994Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
- 1996Billy Williamson, American musician with Bill Haley & His Comets (b. 1925)
- 1996Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
- 1999David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
- 2001Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish combat pilot (b. 1913)
- 2001William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
- 2002Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss conductor and violinist (b. 1917)
- 2003Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
- 2004Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. c. 1937)
- 2005Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
- 2006Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
- 2006Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
- 2006Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
- 2007Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
- 2008Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)
- 2009Jade Goody, British reality TV ‘celebrity’(b. 1981)
- 2009Leon Walker, British rugby player (b. 1988)
- 2010James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist (b. 1924)
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