March 22
Today's Events
- 1621Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth)
- 1638Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony
- 1733Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water
- 1765Britain enacts Stamp Act
- 1778Capt Cook sights Cape Flattery - in Wash state
- 1799F.W.A. Argelander - cataloguer of 324 -000 stars - dies
- 1820Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron
- 1882Congress outlaws polygamy
- 1894Montreal AAA beats Ottawa Capitals 3-2 & wins 1st Stanley Cup
- 1903NY Highlander (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
- 1929USCG vessel sank Canadian-reg schooner suspected of carrying liquor
- 1941Grand Coulee Dam in Wash went into operation
- 1945Arab League founded
- 1946Jordan (then Transjordan) gains independence from Britain
- 1957Earthquake gives SF shakes
- 1960AL Schawlow & C H Townes obtain patent for the laser
- 1963Beatles release 1st album - Please Please Me
- 1967Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali's 1st MSG fight
- 1968Lynda Johnson ordered off Cable Car for eating an ice cream cone
- 1972Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
- 1972Yankees trade Danny Cater to the Red Sox for Sparky Lyle
- 1975Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens
- 1977Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India
- 1978Robert Frost Plaza - at Calif - Drumm & Market - dedicated
- 1979Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
- 19811st class postage raised to 18› from 15›
- 1981Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
- 19823rd Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched
- 1983Chaim Herzog elected Israeli pres
- 1984Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL rec scores 5 seconds into game
