About March 22

March 22, 2024 is the 82nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 313 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 22

  • 1622 –
    Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.
  • 1630 –
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
  • 1739 –
    Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
  • 1765 –
    The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
  • 1784 –
    The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
  • 1809 –
    Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
  • 1829 –
    The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
  • 1871 –
    In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
  • 1873 –
    A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
  • 1906 –
    First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
  • 1916 –
    The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
  • 1920 –
    Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
  • 1923 –
    The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
  • 1939 –
    World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
  • 1954 –
    Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
  • 1960 –
    Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
  • 1982 –
    NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
  • 1989 –
    Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
  • 1995 –
    Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
  • 1997 –
    Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women’s World Figure Skating Champion.

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