| History By Day |
| March 22nd |
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| About March 22nd 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 calendar year. March 22nd is World Water Day. Births 1912 - Karl Malden, actor (The Streets of San Francisco) 1914 - Sonny Burke, musician 1923 - Marcel Marceau, renowned mime 1931 - William Shatner, actor 1934 - Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator (Utah) 1943 - George Benson, musician, singer 1947 - James Patterson, author (Alex Cross, Maximum Ride) 1976 - Reese Witherspoon, actress (Pleasantville, Twilight) Deaths 1820 - Stephen Decatur, naval officer, American hero 2001 - William Hanna, animator, director, cartoonist (Hanna-Barbera) Events 1621 - A peace treaty is signed between Massasoit of the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. 1622 - Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers near Jamestown, Virginia , one-third of the colony's population in the Jamestown Massacre. 1765 - The Stamp Act is introduced by the Parliament of Great Britain levying a tax on the American colonies. 1871 - William Woods Holden, North Carolina ’s Governor, becomes the first U.S. governor to be impeached and removed from office. 1873 - The Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico pass a law to abolish slavery in the then Spanish colony. 1941 - Washington State ’s Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity. 1946 - The U.S. launches their first rocket into earth's atmosphere from White Sands, New Mexico. 1960 - The first patent for a laser is given to Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow. 1963 - The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me, which ranked #1 on the charts for 30 weeks. 1975 - A fire occurs at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama that results in an unsafe lowering of cooling water levels. 1993 - The Intel Corporation begins to ship the Pentium chips that feature a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. |
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