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What happened in history on this day: March 22?
On March 22 in ...
- 1794 - US Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries.
- 1861 - First US nursing school is chartered.
- 1865 - Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas, Alabama, to Macon, Georgia.
- 1871 - William Holden of North Carolina is first governor removed from office by impeachment.
- 1872 - Illinois becomes first state to require sexual equality in employment.
- 1874 - Young Men's Hebrew Association is founded in New York City, New York.
- 1882 - Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories.
- 1898 - A Spanish investigating committee concludes the US battleship Maine was sunk by an accidental explosion in the forward magazines.
- 1903 - Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought.
- 1929 - US Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor.
- 1933 - President Franklin Roosevelt makes wine and beer with up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
- 1935 - Blood tests are authorized as evidence in court cases (New York).
- 1941 - Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State goes into operation.
- 1944 - 600+ US 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin, Germany.
- 1945 - US third Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein.
- 1946 - First US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up).
- 1954 - First shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan, USA.
- 1957 - Earthquake gives San Francisco, California the shakes.
- 1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.
- 1967 - Howard Hughes buys the Desert Inn hotel/casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, from Moe Dalitz for US$13.2 million.
- 1972 - US Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified).
- 1975 - Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens.
- 1978 - Karl Wallenda, famed American aerialist (Flying Wallendas), dies at age 73 while attempting to walk a wire suspended 123 feet in the air between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1981 - US Postal Service raises first class letter postage to 18 cents from 15 cents, per ounce.
- 1982 - Third Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched.
- 1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA.
- 1988 - US Congress overrides President Ronald Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill.
- 1989 - US Supreme Court upholds one person one vote rule of New York City, New York Board of Estimate.
- 1990 - Anchorage Alaska jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill.
- 1991 - Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs.
- 1991 - New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with New York".
- 1991 - Pamela Smart (high school teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband.
- 1992 - US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at La Guardia, 27 die.
- 1996 - Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International.
- 1996 - Capcom releases the Resident Evil game for the PlayStation in the US. The game innovates by creating the survival-horror genre.
- 1996 - STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit.
- 1999 - U.S. pro-euthanasia doctor Jack Kevorkian goes on trial for murder in Pontiac, Michigan.
- 2003 - The United States and the United Kingdom begin their "shock and awe" campaign, with a massive air strike on military targets in Baghdad, Iraq.
- 2018 - US President Donald Trump appoints John Bolton as National Security Advisor, to begin April 9.
Births on March 22
- 1813 - Birth of Thomas Crawford in New York City, New York, USA; sculptor (Freedom atop dome of US Capitol).
- 1887 - Birth of Leonard Marx AKA Chico Marx in New York City, New York, USA; comedian (Marx Brothers).
- 1908 - Birth of Louis D L'Amour in Jamestown, North Dakota, USA; author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett).
- 1908 - Birth of Maurice H Stans in Shakope, Minnesota, USA; US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72).
- 1913 - Birth of James Westerfield in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; actor (Jungle Heat, Lucky Johnny).
- 1913 - Birth of Karl Malden in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Mike - The Streets of San Francisco, American Express commercials).
- 1916 - Birth of George Wyle in New York City, New York, USA; orchestra leader (The Jerry Lewis Show, The Flip Wilson Show).
- 1917 - Birth of Virginia Grey in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho).
- 1924 - Birth of Bill Wendell in New York City, New York, USA; TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman).
- 1930 - Birth of Stephen Sondheim in New York City, New York, USA; lyricist/composer ("Sweeney Todd", "Into The Woods", "West Side Story", "A Little Night Music").
- 1931 - Birth of Burton Richter; American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1935 - Birth of M[ichael] Emmet Walsh in Ogdensburg, New York, USA; actor (Wildcats, War Party).
- 1943 - Birth of George Benson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; singer/guitarist ("Greatest Love of All").
- 1951 - Birth of Howard Reitzes in Southgate, California, USA; rocker (Iron Butterfly).
- 1952 - Birth of Bob Costas in Queens, New York, USA; sportscaster/talk show host (Later).
- 1953 - Birth of Thomas H Andrews; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Maine).
- 1959 - Birth of Matthew Modine in Loma Linda, California, USA; actor (Full Metal Jacket, Pacific Heights).
- 1963 - Birth of Rich Monteleone in Tampa, Florida, USA; pitcher (California Angels).
- 1966 - Birth of Sean Berry in Santa Monica, California, USA; infielder (Houston Astros).
- 1970 - Birth of Jason Rouser in Tucson, Arizona, USA; 200 metre/400 metre runner.
- 1970 - Birth of Travis Richards in Crystal, Minnesota, USA; US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994).
- 1975 - Birth of Dax Griffin in Atlanta Georgia, USA; actor (Tim Truman - Sunset Beach).
- 1976 - Birth of Kellie Shanygne Williams in Washington DC; actress (Laura - Family Matters).
- 1979 - Birth of Mariah Leanne Bergmann; Miss Kansas Teen-USA (1997).
Deaths on March 22
- 1777 - Death of John Bartram at age 77; father of American botany.
- 1956 - George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at age 71.
- 1975 - Asa Smith Bushnell Junior, Secretary of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at age 75.
- 1978 - Karl Wallenda, famed American aerialist (Flying Wallendas), dies at age 73 while attempting to walk a wire suspended 123 feet in the air between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1994 - Death of Walter Lantz at age 93 of heart failure; cartoonist and animator (Woody Woodpecker).
- 2003 - Death of Milton G. Henschel, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 5th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (born 1920).
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