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Events on the 22nd of March in history

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22 Mar 0238 Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
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22 Mar 0752 Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd)
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22 Mar 0871 Æthelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
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22 Mar 1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
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22 Mar 1457 Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book
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22 Mar 1508 Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
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22 Mar 1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury
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22 Mar 1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris France
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22 Mar 1621 The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
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22 Mar 1621 Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands
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22 Mar 1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
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22 Mar 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.
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22 Mar 1622 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites, Jamestown VA; 347 slain
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22 Mar 1630 The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
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22 Mar 1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
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22 Mar 1638 Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
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22 Mar 1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
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22 Mar 1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas
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22 Mar 1692 Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king
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22 Mar 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.
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22 Mar 1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
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22 Mar 1739 Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
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22 Mar 1752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later
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22 Mar 1765 The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
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22 Mar 1765 Stamp Act passed: 1st direct British tax on colonists
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22 Mar 1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament
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22 Mar 1778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state
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22 Mar 1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
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22 Mar 1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
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22 Mar 1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
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22 Mar 1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna
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22 Mar 1822 New York Horticultural Society founded
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22 Mar 1829 In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
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22 Mar 1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
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22 Mar 1849 The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
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22 Mar 1861 1st US nursing school chartered
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22 Mar 1862 San Marino and Italy conclude treaty of friendship and cooperation
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22 Mar 1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA
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22 Mar 1871 William Holden of NC becomes 1st Governor removed by impeachment
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22 Mar 1871 In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
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22 Mar 1871 William Holden of North Carolina is 1st governor removed from office by impeachment
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22 Mar 1872 Illinois becomes the first state to require sexual equality in employment
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22 Mar 1873 A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
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22 Mar 1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
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22 Mar 1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association is founded in New York NY
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22 Mar 1882 Congress outlaws polygamy (again); bad news for Mormons
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22 Mar 1882 Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories
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22 Mar 1888 English Football League established
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22 Mar 1894 Stanley Cup: Mont AAA beat Ottawa Generals, 3-1 (1st Cup game ever)
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22 Mar 1894 The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
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22 Mar 1894 Stanley Cup: Montr
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22 Mar 1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience
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22 Mar 1896 Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18)
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22 Mar 1903 New York Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
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22 Mar 1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
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22 Mar 1906 The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris
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22 Mar 1912 The State of Bihar, India was formed out of the State of Bengal.
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22 Mar 1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
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22 Mar 1916 The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
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22 Mar 1920 Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
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22 Mar 1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
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22 Mar 1927 Federico Garc
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22 Mar 1928 No
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22 Mar 1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes
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22 Mar 1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
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22 Mar 1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
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22 Mar 1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
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22 Mar 1934 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia
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22 Mar 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
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22 Mar 1935 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York)
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22 Mar 1939 World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
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22 Mar 1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany
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22 Mar 1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation
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22 Mar 1942 World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
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22 Mar 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
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22 Mar 1943 World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
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22 Mar 1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
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22 Mar 1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium
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22 Mar 1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
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22 Mar 1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
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22 Mar 1945 The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
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22 Mar 1945 Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt
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22 Mar 1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein
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22 Mar 1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
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22 Mar 1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan
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22 Mar 1947 President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty
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22 Mar 1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
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22 Mar 1953 Anton
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22 Mar 1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
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22 Mar 1954 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan
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22 Mar 1954 Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
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22 Mar 1956 "Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
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22 Mar 1956 Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in New York City
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22 Mar 1956 Death penalty against KPrime Minister-director L
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22 Mar 1956 Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances
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22 Mar 1957 Earthquake gives SF shakes
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22 Mar 1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco shakes
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22 Mar 1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
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22 Mar 1958 20th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72
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22 Mar 1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia
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22 Mar 1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd)
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22 Mar 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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22 Mar 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament
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22 Mar 1960 AL Schawlow and C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
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22 Mar 1960 Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
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22 Mar 1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
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22 Mar 1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 performances
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22 Mar 1963 Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
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22 Mar 1963 The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom.
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22 Mar 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
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22 Mar 1963 Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner
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22 Mar 1964 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section
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22 Mar 1964 Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational
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22 Mar 1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
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22 Mar 1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
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22 Mar 1967 Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Mar 1967 Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title in 1st Madison Square Garden fight
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22 Mar 1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
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22 Mar 1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone
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22 Mar 1968 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France
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22 Mar 1969 "Billy" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance
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22 Mar 1969 "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances
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22 Mar 1969 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
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22 Mar 1970 "Blood Red Roses" opens and closes at John Golden Theater, New York City
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22 Mar 1970 "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC
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22 Mar 1970 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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22 Mar 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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22 Mar 1972 "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances
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22 Mar 1972 In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
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22 Mar 1972 The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
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22 Mar 1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
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22 Mar 1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
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22 Mar 1972 Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million
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22 Mar 1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
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22 Mar 1975 "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival
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22 Mar 1975 "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances
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22 Mar 1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 performances
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22 Mar 1975 Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong"
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22 Mar 1975 A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
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22 Mar 1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship
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22 Mar 1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
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22 Mar 1977 Dutch Den Uyl government falls
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22 Mar 1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India
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22 Mar 1977 Uyl government falls
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22 Mar 1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm and Market, SF, dedicated
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22 Mar 1978 Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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22 Mar 1978 France performs nuclear test
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22 Mar 1978 Robert Frost Plaza, Drumm & Market, San Francisco CA, dedicated
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22 Mar 1978 Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is shown on NBC-TV
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22 Mar 1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
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22 Mar 1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
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22 Mar 1981 1st class postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents
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22 Mar 1981 1st class postage raised to 18
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22 Mar 1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Desert Inn Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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22 Mar 1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
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22 Mar 1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8)
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22 Mar 1982 NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
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22 Mar 1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
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22 Mar 1982 Iran offensive against Iraq
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22 Mar 1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president
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22 Mar 1984 Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
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22 Mar 1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
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22 Mar 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
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22 Mar 1986 Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
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22 Mar 1986 Andrea Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7: 0.99)
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22 Mar 1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
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22 Mar 1986 Heart's "These Dreams" single goes #1
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22 Mar 1986 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1: 9.30)
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22 Mar 1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
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22 Mar 1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Mar 1986 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR)
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22 Mar 1986 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR)
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22 Mar 1986 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
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22 Mar 1987 Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
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22 Mar 1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
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22 Mar 1988 Western Australia beat Queensland by 5 wickets to win the Sheffield Shield Final
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22 Mar 1989 Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player's skate accidentally slits his throat.
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22 Mar 1989 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
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22 Mar 1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate
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22 Mar 1990 "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances
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22 Mar 1990 "Les Miserables, " opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston
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22 Mar 1990 "Les Miserables" opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston MA
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22 Mar 1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
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22 Mar 1990 The Major League umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games
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22 Mar 1991 New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
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22 Mar 1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs
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22 Mar 1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband
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22 Mar 1992 "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances
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22 Mar 1992 Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
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22 Mar 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.
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22 Mar 1992 Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship
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22 Mar 1992 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final
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22 Mar 1992 Joseph A Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner
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22 Mar 1992 Record producer Lou Adler weds Paige Hannah (Daryl's sister)
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22 Mar 1992 US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at La Guardia, 27 die
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22 Mar 1993 The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
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22 Mar 1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS
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22 Mar 1994 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
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22 Mar 1994 Mark Foster swims world record 50 meter butterfly (23.68 seconds)
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22 Mar 1994 South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
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22 Mar 1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
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22 Mar 1995 Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
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22 Mar 1995 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
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22 Mar 1996 Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International
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22 Mar 1996 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit
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22 Mar 1997 "Sunset Boulevard, " closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances
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22 Mar 1997 Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)
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22 Mar 1997 The Comet Hale–Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
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22 Mar 1997 Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
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22 Mar 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
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22 Mar 1998 18th Golden Raspberry Awards
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22 Mar 1998 Wins Standard Register PING Golf
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22 Mar 1998 18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins
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22 Mar 1998 Liselotte Neumann wins Standard Register PING Golf Tournament
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22 Mar 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 AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
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22 Mar 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.
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22 Mar 2013 At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
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22 Mar 2014 At least 251 people die when a boat capsizes in Lake Albert.
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22 Mar 2014 Forty-three people are killed in a mudflow near Oso, Washington.
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