March 22

What happened that day?

• 2017: A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
• 2016: Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
• 2013 The band My Chemical Romance breaks up after 12 years.: null
• 2013: At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
• 2006: Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
• 2004: Ahmed 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 Hellfire missiles.
• 1997: Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
• 1995: Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
• 1993: The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
• 1992: Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
• 1992: USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
• 1982: NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
• 1978: Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1975: A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
• 1972: In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
• 1972: The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
• 1960: Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
• 1945: The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1943: World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
• 1942: World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
• 1939: World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
• 1933: Cullen-Harrison Act: President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
• 1920: Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• 1916: The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
• 1906: The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris
• 1894: The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 1873: The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
• 1872: Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
• 1871: In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• 1849: The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
• 1829: In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
• 1784: The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
• 1765: The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
• 1739: Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
• 1713: The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
• 1638: Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
• 1630: The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
• 1622: Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
• 1621: The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
• 1508: Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
• 871: Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
• 238: Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.