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.
  • 1784 –
    The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
  • 1849 –
    The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
  • 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.
  • 1888 –
    In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
  • 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).
  • 1923 –
    The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy’s Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
  • 1954 –
    Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
  • 1975 –
    A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
  • 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 –
    The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.

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