March 22

Tuesday 22, 2005:

Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols (women's college basketball), becomes the all-time leader in victories for both men's and women's college basketball, getting her 880th win as coach of the team.

Saturday 22, 1997:

Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.

Wednesday 22, 1995:

Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.

Monday 22, 1993:

The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

Wednesday 22, 1989:

Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former secretary, begins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.

Thursday 22, 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.

Wednesday 22, 1978:

Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Saturday 22, 1975:

In Stockholm, Sweden, Teach-In wins the twentieth Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Ding-a-dong."

Monday 22, 1965:

Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.

Friday 22, 1963:

1963 Please Please Me, the first Beatles album, is released in the UK.

Tuesday 22, 1960:

Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.

Saturday 22, 1958:

Faisal becomes King of Saudi Arabia.

Monday 22, 1954:

Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.

Thursday 22, 1945:

The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.

Sunday 22, 1942:

World War II: In the Mediterranean sea, Regia Marina defeats Royal Navy in the Second Battle of Sirte.

Saturday 22, 1941:

Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.

Wednesday 22, 1939:

World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.

Wednesday 22, 1933:

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.

Friday 22, 1895:

First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

Thursday 22, 1894:

The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

Thursday 22, 1888:

The Football League is formed.

Wednesday 22, 1871:

In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

Thursday 22, 1849:

The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.

Wednesday 22, 1809:

Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.

Friday 22, 1765:

The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.

Monday 22, 1638:

Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.

Friday 22, 1630:

Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

Tuesday 22, 1622:

Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.

Monday 22, 1621:

The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.

Thursday 22, 238:

Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.

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