About March 22
March 22, 2023 is the 81st day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 325 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.
- 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.
- 1638 –Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 1960 –Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
- 1972 –The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
- 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.
- 1997 –Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women’s World Figure Skating Champion.
- 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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