This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
03/22/1459 Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria 
03/22/1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England) 
03/22/1700 Giuseppe Sellitto, composer 
03/22/1728 Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter 
03/22/1728 Giacomo Insanguine, composer 
03/22/1752 Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer 
03/22/1767 Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance 
03/22/1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88) 
03/22/1799 F W A Argelander, Memel E Prussia, cataloguer of 324,188 stars 
03/22/1803 Anthonie Waldrop, painter/lithographer 
03/22/1813 Gabriel Rene Paul, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886 
03/22/1814 Thomas Crawford, US sculptor (Babes in the Wood) 
03/22/1817 Braxton Bragg, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1876 
03/22/1819 William Wirt Adams, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1888 
03/22/1822 Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Education/Justice 
03/22/1822 Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)/min to Cologne 
03/22/1822 Seth Williams, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1866 
03/22/1824 William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General (Confederate Army) 
03/22/1834 Francis Asbury Shoup, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 
03/22/1842 Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer 
03/22/1846 Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrater (Caldecott Medal namesake) 
03/22/1852 Theodor Birt [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer 
03/22/1857 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse) 
03/22/1857 Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32) 
03/22/1865 Theophile Ysaye, composer 
03/22/1867 Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdam's street hawker 
03/22/1868 Hamish MacCunn, composer 
03/22/1868 Henry W Methorst, lawyer/director (Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics) 
03/22/1868 Robert A Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923) 
03/22/1885 Adriano Lualdi, composer 
03/22/1885 Jakabs Medins, composer 
03/22/1887 Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin] NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers) 
03/22/1895 Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna Aus, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents) 
03/22/1902 Ellin Berlin [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain) 
03/22/1903 James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean) 
03/22/1905 Carlo Alberto Pizzini, composer 
03/22/1905 Grigor˜ M Kosinzev, Russian director 
03/22/1905 Ruth Page, US choreographer/ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion) 
03/22/1907 James Gavin, US, 82nd Airborne Div General (Sicily/Normandy) 
03/22/1907 Paul J Steenbergen, Neth, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)

03/22/1908 Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett) 
03/22/1908 Maurice H Stans, US Secretary of Commerce (1969-72) 
03/22/1909 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute) 
03/22/1910 Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea) 
03/22/1913 Karl Malden, actor (Streets of SF); don't leave home without it 
03/22/1913 Martha M”dl, German singer/soprano (Wagner) 
03/22/1916 George Wyle, NYC, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show) 
03/22/1916 Josephine van Gasteren, actress/director (Bluejackets) 
03/22/1917 Virginia Grey, LA, actress (Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho

03/22/1918 Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/ Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64

03/22/1918 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer 
03/22/1920 Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West) 
03/22/1921 Wilhelmus Norbert Schmelzer, Netherland, foreign minister (KVP) 
03/22/1922 Mujib ur-Rahman, Pakistan, sheik/politician 
03/22/1923 Cor N van Dis Jr, Dutch 2nd chamber member (SGP, 1971-94) 
03/22/1923 Marcel Marceau, France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie) 
03/22/1924 Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today) 
03/22/1924 Bill Wendell, NYC, TV announcer (Late Night With David Letterman) 
03/22/1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, composer 
03/22/1928 Bill Archer, (Rep-R-TX, 1971-  ) 
03/22/1928 Ed Macauley, NBA'er (Boston Celtics) 
03/22/1930 Derek Bok, college president (Harvard) 
03/22/1930 Lynden O Pindling, premier Bahamas (1967-92) 
03/22/1930 Pat Robertson, televangelist (Pres candidate-R-1989) 
03/22/1930 Stephen Sondheim, US composer (Side by Side by Sondheim) 
03/22/1931 William Shatner, Montr‚al Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker) 
03/22/1933 Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983-  ) 
03/22/1934 Orrin G Hatch, (Sen-R-UT, 1977-  ) 
03/22/1936 May Britt, Germany, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr 
03/22/1936 Roger Whittaker, Nairobi Kenya, country singer 
03/22/1937 Jon Hassell, composer 
03/22/1938 Glen Campbell, singer (By the Time I get to Phoenix, Galveston) 
03/22/1938 Vivian Pulliam, horse trainer 
03/22/1941 Gary Lewis, horse trainer 
03/22/1942 Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Peyton Place, Asylum) 
03/22/1942 Jon Arthur English, composer 
03/22/1943 George Benson, Pittsburgh, singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All) 
03/22/1943 Joseph Schwantner, composer 
03/22/1943 Keith Reif, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love, Renaissance) 
03/22/1945 Charles 'Chuck' Jackson, US singer (Playboy, Independents) 
03/22/1945 Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone) 
03/22/1946 Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware) 
03/22/1946 Serge, [Ruud Schaap], Dutch singer/guitarist (Saskia & Serge) 
03/22/1947 Harry Vanda, rocker (Easy Beats) 
03/22/1947 Patrick Olive, percussionist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing) 
03/22/1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway composer (Into the Woods, Phantom) 
03/22/1948 Randy Hobbs, rocker (McCoys) 
03/22/1951 Moesa Khiramanovich Manarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-4, TM-11) 
03/22/1952 Bob Costas, sportscaster/talk show host (Later) 
03/22/1953 Thomas H Andrews, (Rep-D-Maine) 
03/22/1957 Stephanie Mills, singer/actress (Wiz) 
03/22/1958 Pete Wylie, rocker (Sinful) 
03/22/1959 Matthew Modine, actor (Full Metal Jacket) 
03/22/1970 Travis Richards, Crystal Minn, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994) 
03/22/1971 Richard Castillo, jockey 
03/22/1972 Pieter Christian, Prince of Netherlands 
03/22/1976 Kellie Shanygne Williams, Wash DC, actress (Laura-Family Matters) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
03/22/ 337 Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47 
03/22/1589 Lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67 
03/22/1627 Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish States-General, dies at about 81 
03/22/1639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies 
03/22/1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Ital/Fr composer (Marriage Forc‚), dies at 54 
03/22/1758 Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philospher (Original Sin), dies at 54 
03/22/1777 John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77 
03/22/1796 Gaspare Gabellone, composer, dies at 68 
03/22/1798 Justin Morgan, composer, dies at 51 
03/22/1820 Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at 41 
03/22/1824 Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 77 
03/22/1838 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies 
03/22/1845 Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67 
03/22/1867 Ferdinando Giorgetti, composer, dies at 71 
03/22/1906 Martin Wegelius, Finnish composer, dies at 59 
03/22/1909 Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66 
03/22/1922 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies 
03/22/1923 Theophile Delcass‚, French statesman, dies at 71 
03/22/1924 R G Nivelle, French military man, dies 
03/22/1929 Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 65 
03/22/1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 
03/22/1944 ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed 
03/22/1945 J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies 
03/22/1946 Clemens A von Galen, bishop of Munster/anti fascist, dies at 68 
03/22/1951 J Willem Mengelberg, conductor (Matth„us Passion), dies 
03/22/1956 George Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71 
03/22/1958 Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 56 
03/22/1964 Addison Richards, actor (Col-Pentagon), dies at 76 
03/22/1964 Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies 
03/22/1974 Peter Revson, US race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35 
03/22/1975 Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75 
03/22/1978 Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire in PR, at 73 
03/22/1987 Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58 
03/22/1993 Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreographer (Entartet), dies at 91 
03/22/1993 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist, dies at 83 
03/22/1993 Steve Olin, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 27 
03/22/1993 Tim Crews, pitcher (Cleve Indians), drowns at 31 
03/22/1994 Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42 
03/22/1994 Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32 
03/22/1994 Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
03/22/ 752 Stephen begins his reign as Catholic Pope (or 23rd) 
03/22/1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) 
03/22/1621 Hugo the Great escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein 
03/22/1621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth) 
03/22/1622 1st Indian massacre of whites, Jamestown, Va; 347 slain 
03/22/1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston) 
03/22/1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony 
03/22/1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists 
03/22/1778 Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state 
03/22/1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State 
03/22/1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna 
03/22/1822 NY Horticultural Society founded 
03/22/1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones) 
03/22/1841 Orlando Jones patents cornstarch 
03/22/1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation 
03/22/1865 Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA 
03/22/1871 Wm Holden of NC is 1st governor removed from office by impeachment 
03/22/1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment 
03/22/1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico 
03/22/1874 Young Men's Hebrew Association founded in NYC 
03/22/1882 Congress outlaws polygamy (again); bad news for Mormons 
03/22/1892 A Charlois discovers asteroid #327 Columbia 
03/22/1894 Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins the 1st Stanley Cup 
03/22/1896 Charilaos Vasilakos wins 1st marathon (3:18) 
03/22/1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale 
03/22/1922 British court sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 year 
03/22/1925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1041 Asta 
03/22/1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes 
03/22/1929 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions 
03/22/1929 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor 
03/22/1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal 
03/22/1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) 
03/22/1939 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1511 Dalera 
03/22/1939 Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany 
03/22/1939 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2486 Metsahovi 
03/22/1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into operation 
03/22/1942 Heavy German assault on Malta 
03/22/1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour 
03/22/1943 Obligatory work for woman begins in Belgium 
03/22/1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children 
03/22/1945 Arab League forms 
03/22/1945 US 3rd Army attacks Nierstein on the Rhine 
03/22/1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) 
03/22/1946 Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan 
03/22/1949 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1574 Meyer 
03/22/1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 
03/22/1953 Anton¡n Z potocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia 
03/22/1956 Death penalty against KPM-director L‚on Jungschlaeger 
03/22/1957 Earthquake gives SF shakes 
03/22/1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian 
03/22/1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia 
03/22/1958 Kentucky beats Seattle 84-72 for NCAA basketball championship 
03/22/1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd) 
03/22/1960 AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser 
03/22/1962 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale' opens on Broadway 
03/22/1963 Beatles release 1st album, 'Please Please Me' 
03/22/1963 Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler

03/22/1964 Barbra Striesand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section 
03/22/1965 D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 
03/22/1967 Cassius Clay's (aka Muhammad Ali) 1st MSG fight; KOs Zora Folley 
03/22/1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidenvy of Czechoslovakia 
03/22/1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone 
03/22/1968 Student riot in Nanterre at Paris 
03/22/1969 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years 
03/22/1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) 
03/22/1972 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP 
03/22/1972 US Senate passes 27th amendement (Equal rights) 
03/22/1972 Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle 
03/22/1974 C Torres discovers asteroids #2282 Andres Bello & #2518 Rutllant 
03/22/1975 'Dinge-competed' wins Eurovisie Song festival 
03/22/1975 Delta State beats Immaculata for the women's AIAW championship 
03/22/1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens 
03/22/1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India 
03/22/1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2149 Schwambraniya & #2563 Boyarchuk

03/22/1977 Uyl govt falls 
03/22/1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated 
03/22/1978 Rutle's 'All You Need is Cash' is show on NBC-TV 
03/22/1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt 
03/22/1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers) 
03/22/1981 1st class postage raised to 18› from 15› 
03/22/1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6 
03/22/1981 Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8) 
03/22/1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched 
03/22/1982 Iran offensive against Iraq 
03/22/1983 Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president 
03/22/1984 Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game 
03/22/1985 E Bowell discovers asteroid #3713 
03/22/1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA 
03/22/1986 Debi Thomas is 1st black to win world figure skating champ 
03/22/1986 Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99) 
03/22/1986 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament 
03/22/1986 Heart's 'These Dreams,' single goes #1 
03/22/1986 Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30) 
03/22/1989 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces his retirement 
03/22/1989 Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years

03/22/1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estima

03/22/1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill 
03/22/1991 NY Daily News begins using motto 'Forward with NY' 
03/22/1992 US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at Laguardia, 27 die 
03/22/1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS 
03/22/1994 South African Govt/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland 
  
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