March 22nd is

As Young As You Feel Day

Brain Injury Awareness Day

Goof-off Day

World Day for Water *

North American Wildlife Celebration
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MORE! Anne Hutchinson, Greta Kempton and Barbra Streisand, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy and
Saint Martin – Mi Carëme (mid-Lent)

India – Bihar: Bihar Day

Puerto Rico –
Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud *
(Emancipation from slavery day)

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On This Day in HISTORY

1394 – Ulugh Beg born, Persian astronomer and mathematician

1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci as chief navigator of the Spanish Empire

1599 – Anthony van Dyck born, Flemish-English painter and etcher

1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags

1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws possession of cards and dice

1638 – Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent

1712 – Edward Moore born, English playwright; The Foundling and The Gamester

1739 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne

1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies

1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved to Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand

1785 – Adam Sedgwick born, English scientist, pioneer in Geology

1814 – Thomas Crawford born, American sculptor; “Freedom” figure on top of the Capitol dome

1822 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha born, Ottoman sociologist, historian, statesman and jurist;
Head of the Mecelle Commission, which issues the Civil Code of the Ottoman Empire in sixteen volumes of civil law; family law is left as the domain of Islamic religious law

1829 – In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece

1868 – Robert Andrews Millikan born, American physicist, 1923 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on measuring elementary electronic charge, and on the photoelectric effect

1873 – When petitions are brought to the Spanish National Assembly, it bans slavery in Puerto Rico * ; slave owners are given monetary compensation for each slave, but for the next three years slaves are still required to work for their former owners

1882 – U.S. outlaws polygamy

1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their first movie – the one-minute Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory, generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen – to an invited audience in Paris

1899 – Ruth Page born, American ballerina and innovative choreographer; Frankie & Johnny, The Merry Widow, Billy Sunday

1901 – Greta Kempton born in Austria, American painter; official White House portraits of Bess and Harry Truman

1908 – Louis L’Amour born, American Western novelist and short story writer

1924 – Al Neuharth born, American journalist and author, founded USA Today 

1930 – Stephen Sondheim born, American composer and songwriter

1934 – Sheila Morag Clark Cameron CBE QC  born, Dean of the Arches and Official Principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury (the senior ecclesiastical judge of the Church of England, 2000-2009), since 1983, Vicar-General of Canterbury .

1936 – Roger Whittaker born in Kenya, English singer-songwriter, “The Wind Beneath My Wings”

1937 – Angelo Badalamenti born, American film and TV score composer; Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet

1941 – Billy Collins born, American poet, U.S. Poet Laureate (2001-2003)

1941 – The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state goes into operation.

1945 – The Arab League is formed when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt

1946 – Rivka Golani born, Israeli viola player and composer

1947 – James Patterson born, American mystery novelist

1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber born, English composer

1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes are first to patent a laser

1962 – Barbra Streisand makes her Broadway debut in I Can Get it For You Wholesale

1965 – Bob Dylan releases his first electric guitar album, Bringing It All Back Home

1972 – U.S. Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification; it is ratified by 35 states, but is still three states short of the required 2/3 majority in order to be ratified

1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives

1982 – NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3

1990 – An Anchorage AK jury finds former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicts him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil

1992 – The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election, ending communism in Albania

1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium computer chips

1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth, after a record 438-days in space

1993 – World Day for Water * officially designated by the UN General Assembly

2010 – Google announces it is stopping censorship of Chinese search results on its site by shifting its location from the mainland to Hong Kong
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Visuals

• Brain Injury Awareness
• World Day for Water
• International flags
• 1508 map of the known world
• Adam Sedgwick, geology quote
• Freedom, Capitol dome statue, by Thomas Crawford
• Billy Collins, radio listeners quote
• James Patterson, no kids who hate reading quote
•  Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, after 438 days in space

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