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
- 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.
- 1630 –The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- 1638 –Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
- 1784 –The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
- 1829 –The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
- 1945 –The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1960 –Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
- 1975 –A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
- 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.
- 1997 –Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women’s World Figure Skating Champion.
- 2006 –ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
- 2006 –Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
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