About March 22
March 22, 2025 is the 81st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 332 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 22
- 1621 –The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
- 1622 –Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.
- 1765 –The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
- 1809 –Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
- 1849 –The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
- 1873 –A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
- 1894 –The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
- 1920 –Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
- 1939 –World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
- 1945 –The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1954 –Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
- 1972 –The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
- 1978 –Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 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.
- 1992 –USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
- 1993 –The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
- 1997 –Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women’s World Figure Skating Champion.
- 1997 –The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
- 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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