March 22 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 year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
NATIONAL GOOF OFF DAY
238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
NATIONAL GOOF OFF DAY
238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies. This ultimately lead to the pre-Revolutionary War slogan, "No taxation without representation."
1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies. This ultimately lead to the pre-Revolutionary War slogan, "No taxation without representation."
1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1943 – World War II: The entire population of Khatyn, Belarus is burned alive by German occupation forces.
1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. Only 35 of the required 38 states ratified the constitutional amendment so it did not go into law.
1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. Only 35 of the required 38 states ratified the constitutional amendment so it did not go into law.
1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He had survived several tragedies in his family's acts.
1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
1997 – The Comet Hale–Bopp has its closest approach to Earth (122.295 million miles).
2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
2014 – Forty-three people are killed in a mudflow near Oso, Washington.
BORN TODAY
1394 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1449)
1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter and etcher (d. 1641)
1868 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1901 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter (d. 1991)
1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
BORN TODAY
1394 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1449)
1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter and etcher (d. 1641)
1868 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1901 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter (d. 1991)
1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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