What are the important events that happened on March 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 22 is the 82nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 9, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,296 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontadigon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 313 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,109 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 22 Historical Events
- 1630 –The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- 1765 –The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
- 1871 –In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- 1906 –First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
- 1923 –The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- 1989 –Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
- 1992 –USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after liftoff from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
- 1993 –The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
- 1995 –Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
- 2006 –Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.
Who were born on March 22?
- 1366 –Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)
- 1817 –Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
- 1887 –Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)
- 1928 –Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)
- 1940 –Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940 –Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian/American actor (d. 1996)
- 1942 –Bernd Herzsprung, German actor
- 1943 –Keith Relf, English musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)
- 1955 –Valdis Zatlers, Latvian politician
- 1958 –Laurie David, American political activist
Who died on March 22?
- 1758 –Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
- 1977 –A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
- 1978 –Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
- 1994 –Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
- 2001 –William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
- 2002 –Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss conductor and violinist (b. 1917)
- 2004 –Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. c. 1937)
- 2007 –Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
- 2009 –Jade Goody, British reality TV ‘celebrity’(b. 1981)
- 2009 –Leon Walker, British rugby player (b. 1988)
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