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Birthday March 22, 1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor |
Birthday March 22, 1817 Braxton Bragg born |
Birthday March 22, 1822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter |
Birthday March 22, 1846 Randolph Caldecott, England, Illustrater |
Birthday March 22, 1907 James Gavin, genl |
Birthday March 22, 1908 Louis L'Amour born |
Birthday March 22, 1908 Maurice Stans, sec of commerce |
Birthday March 22, 1909 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (The Tin Flute) |
Birthday March 22, 1910 Nicholas Monsarrat, English writer |
Birthday March 22, 1913 Karl Malden, don't leave home without it (St of SF) |
Birthday March 22, 1920 Werner Klemperer, Hogan's Heroes Col Klink |
Birthday March 22, 1923 Marcel Marceau, mime, France |
Birthday March 22, 1930 Stephen Sondheim is born |
Birthday March 22, 1930 Stephen Sondheim, US composer |
Birthday March 22, 1931 William Shatner, Mont, (Capt. Kirk, T J Hooker) |
Birthday March 22, 1934 Orrin Hatch, (R), Utah sen |
Birthday March 22, 1936 May Britt, German Actress & former wife of Sammy Davis Jr |
Birthday March 22, 1942 Barbara Parkins, Engl (Peyton Place) |
Birthday March 22, 1943 George Benson, singer-guitarist |
Birthday March 22, 1947 Prolific, best-selling author James Patterson is born |
Birthday March 22, 1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer |
History March 22, 1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth) |
History March 22, 1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony |
History March 22, 1733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water |
History March 22, 1765 Britain enacts Stamp Act |
History March 22, 1765 British pass Stamp Act |
History March 22, 1778 Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery - in Wash state |
History March 22, 1799 F.W.A. Argelander - cataloguer of 324 -000 stars - dies |
History March 22, 1820 Naval hero killed in duel |
History March 22, 1820 Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron |
History March 22, 1859 Earthquake destroys landmarks in Quito, Ecuador |
History March 22, 1882 Congress outlaws polygamy |
History March 22, 1894 Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins 1st Stanley Cup |
History March 22, 1894 First Stanley Cup championship played |
History March 22, 1903 NY Highlander (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale |
History March 22, 1915 Russians take Austrian garrison at Przemysl |
History March 22, 1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian-reg schooner suspected of carrying liquor |
History March 22, 1933 FDR legalizes sale of beer and wine |
History March 22, 1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation |
History March 22, 1942 Cripps and Gandhi meet |
History March 22, 1945 Arab League founded |
History March 22, 1945 Arab League formed |
History March 22, 1946 Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain |
History March 22, 1947 Truman orders loyalty checks of federal employees |
History March 22, 1957 Earthquake gives SF shakes |
History March 22, 1960 AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser |
History March 22, 1963 Beatles release 1st album - Please Please Me |
History March 22, 1965 Officials confirm non-lethal gas was provided |
History March 22, 1967 Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali's 1st MSG fight |
History March 22, 1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating an ice cream cone |
History March 22, 1968 Westmoreland to depart South Vietnam |
History March 22, 1972 Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress |
History March 22, 1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) |
History March 22, 1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle |
History March 22, 1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens |
History March 22, 1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India |
History March 22, 1978 Robert Frost Plaza - at Calif - Drumm & Market - dedicated |
History March 22, 1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt |
History March 22, 1981 1st class postage raised to 18› from 15› |
History March 22, 1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6 |
History March 22, 1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched |
History March 22, 1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli pres |
History March 22, 1983 The origins of the Hummer |
History March 22, 1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game |
History March 22, 1984 Teachers are indicted at the McMartin Preschool |
History March 22, 2007 News Corporation and NBC announce new Web deal |
History March 22, 2014 Mudslide in Washington state kills more than 40 people |