March 22 Events |
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| March 22nd, 2008 (March 22 2008) | Event | The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008. | |
| March 22nd, 2006 (March 22 2006) | Event | ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire. | |
| March 22nd, 2006 (March 22 2006) | Event | BC Ferries M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths. | |
| March 22nd, 2006 (March 22 2006) | Event | Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox. | |
| March 22nd, 2004 (March 22 2004) | Event | Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles. | |
| March 22nd, 1997 (March 22 1997) | Event | Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women s world figure skating competition. | |
| March 22nd, 1997 (March 22 1997) | Event | The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth. | |
| March 22nd, 1995 (March 22 1995) | Event | Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space. | |
| March 22nd, 1993 (March 22 1993) | Event | The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. | |
| March 22nd, 1989 (March 22 1989) | Event | Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat. | |
| March 22nd, 1984 (March 22 1984) | Event | 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. | |
| March 22nd, 1979 (March 22 1979) | Event | Margaret Thatcher puts down an early day motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| March 22nd, 1978 (March 22 1978) | Event | Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. | |
| March 22nd, 1975 (March 22 1975) | Event | A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels. | |
| March 22nd, 1960 (March 22 1960) | Event | Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser. | |
| March 22nd, 1954 (March 22 1954) | Event | Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens. | |
| March 22nd, 1945 (March 22 1945) | Event | The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt. | |
| March 22nd, 1943 (March 22 1943) | Event | World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces. | |
| March 22nd, 1942 (March 22 1942) | Event | World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Britain s Royal Navy confronts Italy s Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte. | |
| March 22nd, 1941 (March 22 1941) | Event | Washington s Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity. | |
| March 22nd, 1939 (March 22 1939) | Event | World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania. | |
| March 22nd, 1933 (March 22 1933) | Event | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes |
| March 22nd, 1923 (March 22 1923) | Event | The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt. | |
| March 22nd, 1895 (March 22 1895) | Event | First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumiere. | |
| March 22nd, 1894 (March 22 1894) | Event | The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts. | |
| March 22nd, 1888 (March 22 1888) | Event | The Football League is formed. | |
| March 22nd, 1873 (March 22 1873) | Event | A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery. | |
| March 22nd, 1871 (March 22 1871) | Event | In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment. | |
| March 22nd, 1849 (March 22 1849) | Event | The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara. | |
| March 22nd, 1829 (March 22 1829) | Event | The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. | |
| March 22nd, 1809 (March 22 1809) | Event | Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne. | |
| March 22nd, 1784 (March 22 1784) | Event | The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. | |
| March 22nd, 1765 (March 22 1765) | Event | The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies. | |
| March 22nd, 1638 (March 22 1638) | Event | Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent. | |
| March 22nd, 1630 (March 22 1630) | Event | Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables. | |
| March 22nd, 1622 (March 22 1622) | Event | Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony s population. | |
| March 22nd, 1621 (March 22 1621) | Event | The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. | |
| March 22nd, 0238 (March 22 0238) | Event | Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. | |
