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.
- 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.
- 1829 –The three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
- 1871 –In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- 1894 –The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
- 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.
- 1945 –The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1954 –Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
- 1960 –Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
- 1982 –NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
- 1984 –Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
- 1993 –The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
- 1995 –Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
- 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.
- 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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