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March 22
1765 - The Stamp Act was enacted on the American colonies by Britain. (It was repealed the following year after fierce opposition from colonists.)
1820 - U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron.
1882 - President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.
1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.
1933 - The first German concentration camp was opened at Dachau.
1941 - The Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation.
1945 - The Arab League was formed in Cairo, by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
1963 - The Beatles' debut album, "Please Please Me," was released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone.
1972 - Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment and sent it to the states to be ratified. (The amendment would fail to get the required 38 states to ratify it.)
1978 - Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1988 - Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
1993 - Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet's next pass is predicted for the year 4397.
2010 - Google Inc. stopped censoring the internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland to Hong Kong.
2012 - Amadou Toumani Toure, the president of Mali, was ousted in a coup.
2013 - The Internal Revenue Service said it was a mistake for employees to have made a $60,000 six-minute training video spoofing "Star Trek" and "Gilligan's Island."
2018 - President Donald Trump set in motion tariffs on as much as $60 billion in Chinese imports, and China threatened retaliation; the heightening trade tensions brought a selloff on Wall Street, where the Dow industrials plunged more than 700 points.
2019 - Special counsel Robert Mueller closed his Russia investigation with no new charges, delivering his final report to Justice Department officials.
2019 - Former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush.
2020 - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all nonessential businesses in the state to close and nonessential workers to stay home due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
2022 - Actor Amanda Bynes was released from a court conservatorship that put her life and financial decisions in her parents' control for nearly nine years.
Birthdays
25 - Paola Andino (actress)
28 - Nick Robinson (actor)
32 - Dominique Fishback (actress)
34 - JJ Watt (football player)
38 - James Wolk (actor)
41 - Constance Wu (actress)
42 - Tiffany Dupont (actress)
47 - Reese Witherspoon (actress)
47 - Kellie Williams (actress)
48 - Cole Hauser (actor)
47 - Anne Dudek (actress)
48 - Guillermo Diaz (actor)
51 - Elvis Stojko (figure skater)
52 - Keegan-Michael Key (actor/comedian)
58 - Rick Harrison (reality star)
64 - Matthew Modine (actor)
66 - Stephanie Mills (actress/singer)
68 - Lena Olin (actress)
71 - Bob Costas (sportscaster)
74 - Fanny Ardant (actress)
75 - Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer)
75 - Wolf Blitzer (newscaster)
82 - Jeremy Clyde (actor/singer)
88 - M. Emmet Walsh (actor)
92 - William Shatner (actor)
93 - Pat Robertson (evangelist)
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Today in Sports History - March 22
1894 - The first Stanley Cup championship game was played, where the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association triumphed over the Ottawa Capitals.
1934 - The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia.
1964 - Ed Johnston (Boston Bruins) became the last goalie in NHL history to play every minute of every game for an entire season.
1967 - Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing to be inducted into the United States Army.
1969 - UCLA beat Purdue to become the first college basketball team to win three straight NCAA titles.
1979 - The NHL voted to accepted four teams from the World Hockey Association (WHA): the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers.
1986 - HBO announces a unification tournament for boxing's heavyweight championship.
1989 - NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces his retirement after a 29-year career.
1994 - The NFL announced the addition of the two-point conversion. It was the league's first scoring change in 75 seasons.
1997 - American Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest ladies' world figure skating champion in Lausanne, Switzerland.
1765 - The Stamp Act was enacted on the American colonies by Britain. (It was repealed the following year after fierce opposition from colonists.)
1820 - U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron.
1882 - President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.
1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.
1933 - The first German concentration camp was opened at Dachau.
1941 - The Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation.
1945 - The Arab League was formed in Cairo, by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
1963 - The Beatles' debut album, "Please Please Me," was released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone.
1972 - Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment and sent it to the states to be ratified. (The amendment would fail to get the required 38 states to ratify it.)
1978 - Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1988 - Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
1993 - Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet's next pass is predicted for the year 4397.
2010 - Google Inc. stopped censoring the internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland to Hong Kong.
2012 - Amadou Toumani Toure, the president of Mali, was ousted in a coup.
2013 - The Internal Revenue Service said it was a mistake for employees to have made a $60,000 six-minute training video spoofing "Star Trek" and "Gilligan's Island."
2018 - President Donald Trump set in motion tariffs on as much as $60 billion in Chinese imports, and China threatened retaliation; the heightening trade tensions brought a selloff on Wall Street, where the Dow industrials plunged more than 700 points.
2019 - Special counsel Robert Mueller closed his Russia investigation with no new charges, delivering his final report to Justice Department officials.
2019 - Former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush.
2020 - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all nonessential businesses in the state to close and nonessential workers to stay home due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
2022 - Actor Amanda Bynes was released from a court conservatorship that put her life and financial decisions in her parents' control for nearly nine years.
Birthdays
25 - Paola Andino (actress)
28 - Nick Robinson (actor)
32 - Dominique Fishback (actress)
34 - JJ Watt (football player)
38 - James Wolk (actor)
41 - Constance Wu (actress)
42 - Tiffany Dupont (actress)
47 - Reese Witherspoon (actress)
47 - Kellie Williams (actress)
48 - Cole Hauser (actor)
47 - Anne Dudek (actress)
48 - Guillermo Diaz (actor)
51 - Elvis Stojko (figure skater)
52 - Keegan-Michael Key (actor/comedian)
58 - Rick Harrison (reality star)
64 - Matthew Modine (actor)
66 - Stephanie Mills (actress/singer)
68 - Lena Olin (actress)
71 - Bob Costas (sportscaster)
74 - Fanny Ardant (actress)
75 - Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer)
75 - Wolf Blitzer (newscaster)
82 - Jeremy Clyde (actor/singer)
88 - M. Emmet Walsh (actor)
92 - William Shatner (actor)
93 - Pat Robertson (evangelist)
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Today in Sports History - March 22
1894 - The first Stanley Cup championship game was played, where the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association triumphed over the Ottawa Capitals.
1934 - The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia.
1964 - Ed Johnston (Boston Bruins) became the last goalie in NHL history to play every minute of every game for an entire season.
1967 - Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing to be inducted into the United States Army.
1969 - UCLA beat Purdue to become the first college basketball team to win three straight NCAA titles.
1979 - The NHL voted to accepted four teams from the World Hockey Association (WHA): the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers.
1986 - HBO announces a unification tournament for boxing's heavyweight championship.
1989 - NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces his retirement after a 29-year career.
1994 - The NFL announced the addition of the two-point conversion. It was the league's first scoring change in 75 seasons.
1997 - American Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest ladies' world figure skating champion in Lausanne, Switzerland.