March 22
March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). There are 284 days remaining.
Events:
- 1622 - Jamestown Massacre
- 1717 - First ballet performance: The Love of Mars and Venus.
- 1882 - Polygamy outlawed by congress.
- 1895 - First public display of motion pictures by the Lumiere brothers.
- 1933 - Roosevelt signs law legalizing Near Beer (Beer having no more than 3.2 percent alcohol) during Prohibition.
- 1945 - Arab League founded.
- 1941 - Washington's [Grand Coolee Dam] began operations.
- 1995 - Colin Ferguson, convicted for shooting and killing six people on the [Long Island Railroad], was sentenced to life in prison.
Births:
- 1599 - Anthonis van Dyke, painer (+ 1641)
- 1797 - Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and German emperor (+ 1888)
- 1900 - Erich Fromm
- 1923 - Marcel Marceau, pantomimist
- 1930 - Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist
- 1930 - Pat Robertson televangelist
- 1931 - William Shatner, actor
- 1934 - Orrin Hatch, politician (Republican-Utah)
- 1935 - M. Emmet Walsh, actor
- 1941 - Bruno Ganz, actor
- 1945 - Paul Schockemöhle, eqestrian
- 1946 - André Heller, artist
- 1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer
Deaths:
- 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
- 2001 - William Hanna, animator, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio
- The fourth day of Quinquatrus in ancient Rome.
Holidays and observances:
See Also:
March 21 - March 23 - February 24 - April 24 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December