About March 22
March 22, 2021 is the 81st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 316 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 22
- 238 –Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1873 –A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
- 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).
- 1939 –World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
- 1942 –World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy’s Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
- 1943 –World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
- 1954 –Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2009 –Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
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