This Day in History for 22nd March

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 173

238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor.
752 - Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
1349 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
1556 - Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1594 - French King Henri IV festival in Paris
1621 - Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Neth
1622 - 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain
1630 - 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
1680 - Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
1692 - Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
1733 - Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1765 - Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists
1775 - Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
1778 - Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
1794 - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
US President Thomas Jefferson 1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
1822 - NY Horticultural Society founded
1829 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1841 - Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1861 - 1st US nursing school chartered
1862 - San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation
1865 - Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
1871 - William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
1872 - Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1873 - Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
1874 - Young Men's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1882 - Edmunds Act adopted by the US to suppress polygamy, 1300 men later imprisoned under the act
1888 - English Football League established
1894 - Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
1895 - Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
1896 - Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1914 - World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Gandhi 1922 - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1927 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid
1928 - Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London
1929 - 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
1929 - KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
1929 - USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
1933 - FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1934 - 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Ga
1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1935 - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY)
1939 - Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany
1941 - Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 - Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
1943 - Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
1943 - SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
1944 - 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1945 - Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
1945 - US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
1946 - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1946 - Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
1947 - President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
1952 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1953 - AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1954 - 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich
1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
1956 - "Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
1956 - Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger
1956 - Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC
1957 - Earthquake gives SF shakes
1957 - Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
1958 - 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
1958 - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
1958 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
1960 - 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1960 - AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 perfs
1963 - Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
1963 - Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
1963 - Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner
Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand 1964 - Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
1964 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational
1965 - D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1967 - Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 - Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968 - Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1968 - Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
1969 - "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
1969 - "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 - 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
1970 - "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
1970 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1972 - Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1972 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
1972 - Nick Mileti purchases Cleve Indians for $9 million

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 253

841 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885)
1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
1366 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
1459 - Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria
1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England)
1609 - John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68)
1663 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1700 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)
1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)
1723 - Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)
1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter
1728 - Giacomo Insanguine, composer
1752 - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer
1759 - Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)
1767 - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance
1771 - Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf)
1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
1799 - F W A Argelander, Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars
1803 - Anthonie Waldrop, Dutch painter/lithographer
1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
1813 - Gabriel Rene Paul, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1814 - Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood)
1817 - Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)
1819 - William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1822 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education/Justice
1822 - Isaac D Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)
1822 - Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866
1824 - William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army)
1834 - Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1842 - Carl A N Rosa, German violinist/composer
1842 - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
1846 - Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)
1852 - Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer
1857 - Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse)
1857 - Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32)
1860 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
1865 - Theophile Ysaye, composer
1866 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)
1867 - Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam's pitchman
1868 - Hamish MacCunn, composer
1868 - Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics)
1868 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)
1869 - Emilio Aguinaldo, first President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
1874 - Ellen Glasgow, novelist
1878 - Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)
1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)
1885 - Adriano Lualdi, composer
1885 - Jakabs Medins, composer
1885 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1887 - Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin], NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers)
1896 - Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Austria, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents, Diary of Anne Frank))
1896 - Giulia D De Albertis, writer
1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)
1901 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)
1902 - Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
1903 - James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean)
1903 - Jochen Klepper, writer
1905 - Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer
1905 - Grigorij M Kosinzev, Russian director
1905 - Phyllis McGinley, poet
1905 - Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion)
1907 - James Gavin, US, 82nd Airborne Div General (Sicily/Normandy)
1907 - Paul J Steenbergen, Neth, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)
1907 - Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
1908 - Albrecht Goes, writer
1908 - Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
1908 - Maurice H Stans, Shakope Minn, Secretary of Commerce (1969-72)
1909 - Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute)
1909 - Jack Popplewell, composer/playwright
1910 - Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
1912 - Henri Rousselot, admiral
1912 - Lord Alport
1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, Dublin Ireland, actor (Hard Day's Night)
1912 - Karl Malden, Chicago, actor (Mike-Streets of SF, American Express)
1913 - James Westerfield, Nashville TN, actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny)
1913 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)
1914 - Cec Burke, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner v Australia 1946, 1 & 3, 2-30)
1914 - Lord Stokes
1914 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist
1915 - Forest Sagendorf, cartoonist
1915 - George Cresswell, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ aged 35)
1915 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer (d. 2005)
1916 - George Wyle, NYC, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show)
1916 - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets)
1917 - C S Pick, publisher
1917 - Virginia Grey, LA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho)
1918 - Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64)
1918 - Harry Kay, vice-chancellor (Exeter U)
1918 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
1920 - Fanny Waterman, concert pianist & teacher
1920 - Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)
1921 - Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister (KVP)
1921 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (d. 2004)
1922 - Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/premier
1922 - Stewart Stern, screenwriter (Rebel Without A Cause)
1923 - Bryan Clieve Roberts, lawyer/civil servant

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

1916 - British writer ('Lord of the Rings'), poet and professor J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien marries Edith Mary Bratt at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick
1992 - Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister)
2009 - "The Wonder Years" actress Danica McKellar (36) weds composer Mike Verta (36) at St. James by the Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1958 - Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 92 of 92

1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388)
1471 - George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies
1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
1589 - Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67
1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
1627 - Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81
1639 - Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies
1661 - Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73
1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, French baroque composer (b. 1632)
1758 - Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin), dies at 54
1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
1777 - John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77
1796 - Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68
1798 - Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51
1820 - Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron at 41
1824 - Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76
1832 - J W Goethe, writer, dies at 82
1838 - Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73
1840 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
1845 - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67
1867 - Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 70
1871 - Johnny Cuzens, cricketer (Australian aboriginal tourist 1868), dies
1890 - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85
1906 - Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
1909 - Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
1922 - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86
1923 - Theophile Delcasse, French statesman, dies at 71
1924 - R G Nivelle, French general (Verdun), dies at 67
1929 - Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64
1931 - Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
1934 - Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
1944 - ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
1945 - J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1946 - Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68
1951 - J Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Mattheus Passion), dies at 79
1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1953 - James Anderson II, (Jo-Northern Exposure), dies
1955 - Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
1956 - George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71
1958 - Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56
1960 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
1962 - Aura Abranches, Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65
1964 - Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76
1969 - Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
1971 - Martin Bodmer, writer, dies
1974 - Peter Revson, US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35
1975 - Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
1975 - Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59
1975 - Paul Verhoeven, German director dies at 73
1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
1978 - Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR at 73
1979 - Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 - Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies
1986 - Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
1987 - Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58
1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
1991 - Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1991 - Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1991 - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1993 - Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW & Commonwealth XI leggie), dies
1993 - Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91
1993 - Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, Dutch harpist, dies at 83
1993 - Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27
1993 - Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31
1994 - Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42
1994 - Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
1994 - Luther Diamond, radio Personality, dies at 89
1994 - Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93
1995 - Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64
1996 - Claude Mauriac, writer, dies at 81
1996 - Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS 5, STS 51-B), dies at 59
1996 - Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47
1996 - Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78
1996 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
Animator William Hanna (2001) 2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder, dies at 90
2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
2007 - Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
2008 - Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)
2009 - Leon Walker, Wakefield Wildcats Rugby Player (b. 1988)
2009 - Jade Goody, Reality TV Star and Entrepreneur
2010 - James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist (b. 1924)