Today in History - March 22
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Easter is the Sunday after the
Paschal full moon, which may occur any time from Mar 21 through Apr 18.
Thus the date for Easter may be any time from March 22 to April 25
inclusive. The date of the Paschal full moon is determined from tables
and it may differ from the date of the actual full moon by as much as 2
days.
(SFC, 12/27/04, p.C10)
1387
Mar 22, Jogaila gave Vilnius the rights of
Magdeburg. Vilnius became the 1st self-governed Lithuanian city.
(LHC, 3/22/03)
1471 Mar 22, George van Podiebrad,
king of Bohemia (1458-71), died.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1556 Mar 22, Cardinal Reginald
Pole became archbishop of Canterbury.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1599 Mar 22, Sir Anthony Van Dyck,
Flemish artist, was born. He gave his name to the Vandyke beard. [See
Feb 22]
(AP, 3/22/99)
1622 Mar 22, The Powhattan
Confederacy massacred 347-350 colonists in Virginia, a quarter of the
population. On Good Friday over 300 colonists in and around Jamestown,
Virginia, were massacred by the Powhatan Indians. The massacre was led
by the Powhatan chief Opechancanough and began a costly 22-year war
against the English. Opechancanough hoped that killing one quarter of
Virginia’s colonists would put an end to the European threat. The
result of the massacre was just the opposite, however, as English
survivors regrouped and pushed the Powhattans far into the interior.
Opechancanough launched his final campaign in 1644, when he was nearly
100 years old and almost totally blind. He was then captured and
executed.
(WSJ, 10/19/98, p.A24)(HNPD, 10/23/98)(AP, 3/22/99)
1630 Mar 22, First legislation
prohibiting gambling was enacted in Boston.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1638 Mar 22, Religious dissident
Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1659 Mar 22, The Warsaw parliament
decided to issue metal currency, shillings, for Lithuania and Poland.
(LHC, 3/22/03)
1664 Mar 22, Charles II gave large
tracks of land from west of the Connecticut River to the east of
Delaware Bay in North America to his brother James, the Duke of York
and Albany. The entire Hudson Valley and New Amsterdam was given to
James.
(AP, 3/22/99)(ON, 4/00, p.2)
1685 Mar 22, Composer Johann
Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. [see Mar 21]
(CFA, '96,Vol 179, p.42)(AP, 3/21/97)
1719 Mar 22, Frederick William
abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1752 Mar 22, Johann Georg Joseph
Spangler, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1758 Mar 22, Jonathan Edwards
(b.1703), US colonial theologian, philosopher (Great Awakening,
Original Sin), died in New Jersey following an inoculation for smallpox.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards)
1765 Mar 22, Britain enacted the
Stamp Act to raise money from the American Colonies. This was the first
direct British tax on the colonists. The Act was repealed the following
year. The tax covered just about everything produced by the American
colonists and began the decade of crisis that led to the American
Revolution. The Stamp Act taxed the legal documents of the American
colonists and infuriated John Adams.
(AP, 3/22/97)(HN, 3/22/97)(A&IP, p.13,18)
1775 Mar 22, British statesman
Edmund Burke made a speech in the House of Commons, urging the
government to adopt a policy of reconciliation with America.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1778 Mar 22, Captain Cook sighted
Cape Flattery in Washington state.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1786 Mar 22, Joachim Lelevelis was
born in Warsaw. He became a renowned historian and Prof. at Vilnius
Univ. He died May 29, 1861 in Paris.
(LHC, 3/22/03)
1790 Mar 22, Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826) became the first US Secretary of State. As Secretary of
State, he served on the first Board of Arts, the body that reviewed
patent applications and granted patents. Jefferson was one of a
triumvirate that served as both America’s first patent commissioner and
first patent examiner.
(HN,
3/22/97)(www.archipelago.org/vol10-34/matsuura.htm)
1794 Mar 22, Congress passed laws
prohibiting slave trade with foreign countries, although slavery
remained legal in the United States. Congress banned US vessels from
supplying slaves to other countries.
(HN, 3/22/01)(MC, 3/22/02)
1795 Mar 22, A Lithuanian
delegation under L. Tiskevicius went to Jekaterina II in Petersburg and
declared that Lithuania’s union with Poland was ended.
(Voruta #27-28, Jul 1996, p.5)
1797 Mar 22, Kaiser Wilhelm I,
German Emperor (1871-88), was born.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1817 Mar 22, Braxton Bragg
(d.1876), Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1820 Mar 22, The Decatur-Barron
Duel. U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur (b.1779) was killed in a duel
with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C.
(HFA, ‘96, p.26)(AP, 3/22/97)
1822 Mar 22, Gioacchino Rossini
married Isabella Colbran in Bologna.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1834 Mar 22, Horace Greeley
published “New Yorker,” a weekly literary and news magazine and
forerunner of Harold Ross' more successful “The New Yorker.”
(HN, 3/22/01)
1841 Mar 22, Cornstarch was
patented by Orlando Jones.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1842 Mar 22, Mykola Vytal'yevich
Lysenko, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1846 Mar 22, Randolph Caldecott,
illustrator, was born.
(HN, 3/22/01)
1865 Mar 22, Theophile Ysaye,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1865 Mar 22, Raid at Wilson's:
Chickasaw, AL, to Macon, GA.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1868 Mar 22, Robert A. Millikan,
US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1871 Mar 22, William Holden of NC
became the 1st US governor removed by impeachment.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1872 Mar 22, Illinois became 1st
state to require sexual equality in employment.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1873 Mar 22, Slavery was abolished
in Puerto Rico.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1874 Mar 22, Young Men's Hebrew
Association was organized in NYC.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1882 Mar 22, US Congress outlawed
polygamy. The Edmunds-Tucker Act was adopted by the US to suppress
polygamy in the territories. [see Morrill Act 1862] President Chester
Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.
(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)(AP, 3/22/08)
1887 Mar 22, Chico Marx, [Leonard
Martin], comedian (Marx Brothers), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1894 Mar 22, Hockey's first
Stanley Cup championship game was played; the home team Montreal
Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals, 3-1.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1895 Mar 22, Auguste and Louis
Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris; this
is generally regarded as the first-ever public display of a movie
projected onto a screen. [see Dec 28]
(AP, 3/22/97)
1901 Mar 22, Japan proclaimed that
it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1902 Mar 22, Great Britain and
Persia agreed to link Europe and India by telegraph.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1903 Mar 22, Niagara Falls ran out
of water because of a drought. [see Feb 22]
(MC, 3/22/02)
1904 Mar 22, The first color
photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1905 Mar 22, Ruth Page, US
choreographer, ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1907 Mar 22, James Gavin, U.S.
Army General, was born. He commanded the 82nd Airborne Division on
D-Day, Operation Market-Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/99)
1907 Mar 22, Russians troops
completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese
forces.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/99)
1908 Mar 22, Louis L’Amour
(d.1998), American author, was born in Jamestown, North Dakota. He
wrote 116 western novels.
(HN, 3/22/97)(USAT, 6/10/98, p.1D)(MC, 3/22/02)
1912 Mar 22, Karl Malden (d.2009),
later film and TV star, was born as Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago.
(AP, 7/2/09)(SFC, 7/1/09, p.A8)
1913 Mar 22, Karl Malden, actor
(Mike-Streets of SF, American Express), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1913 Mar 22, Martha Modl, German
singer, soprano (Wagner), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1915 Mar 22, A German Zeppelin
made a night raid on Paris railway stations.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1917 Mar 22, The U.S. became the
first to recognize the Kerensky Government in Russia.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1918 Mar 22, Ukrainian mobs
massacred the Jews of Seredino Buda.
(www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/205/612)
1919 Mar 22, The first
international airline service was inaugurated on a weekly schedule
between Paris and Brussels.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1922 Mar 22, A British court
sentenced Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison. [see Mar 18]
(MC, 3/22/02)
1923 Mar 22, Marcel Marceau,
French mime, was born. "I do not get my ideas from people on the
street. If you look at faces on the street, what do you see? Nothing.
Just boredom." He devised over 100 pantomimes, including The Creation
of the World.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/99)
1927 Mar 22, Federico Garcia
Lorca's "El Maleficio," premiered in Madrid.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1928 Mar 22, Dmitri Antonovitch
Volkogonov, soldier, historian, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1928 Mar 22, Noel Coward's musical
"This Year of Grace," premiered in London.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1928 Mar 22, Peasants in the
Soviet Union protested food shortages there.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1929 Mar 22, A US Coast Guard
vessel sank a Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1930 Mar 22, Stephen Sondheim,
American composer and lyricist (A Little Night Music, Passion), was
born.
(HN, 3/22/01)
1933 Mar 22, During Prohibition,
President Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine & beer containing
up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal. [see Feb 20, Apr 7, Dec 5]
(AP, 3/22/97)(HN, 3/22/97)
1934 Mar 22, Philippine
independence was granted by the US and was guaranteed to begin in 1945.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)
1934 Mar 22, Orrin Hatch, U.S.
senator from Utah, was born.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1935 Mar 22, Michael Emmet Walsh,
actor (Wildcats, War Party), was born in Ogdensburg, NY.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1935 Mar 22, Blood tests were
authorized as evidence in court cases in NY.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1935 Mar 22, Persia was renamed
Iran.
(SFC,11/19/97, Z1 p.7)(HN, 3/22/97)
1935 Mar 22, Russia sold the
Chinese Eastern Railway to Japan.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1936 Mar 22, May Britt, actress
(Young Lions), wife of Sammy Davis Jr., was born in Sweden.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1936 Mar 22, Roger Whittaker,
country singer (Durham Town), was born in Nairobi, Kenya.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1936 Mar 22, In Alameda, Ca.,
Chief Engineer George W. Alberts was found murdered aboard the
freighter S.S. Point Lobos. District Attorney Earl Warren prosecuted
the case and 4 defendants were convicted and sentenced to prison.
(SFEM, 6/1/97, p.16-21)
1938 Mar 22, Glen Campbell, singer
(By the Time I get to Phoenix, Galveston), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1939 Mar 22, Germany marched into
Klaipeda (Memel), Lithuania. The Lithuanian warship Prezidentas Smetona
was left without a harbor. The ship soon settled at Latvia’s port of
Liepaja. In December Ltn. P. Labanauskas was named captain. In 1940
Soviet occupiers called for the ship to raise the Soviet flag, but
Captain Labanauskas sailed the ship out of Soviet territory. The ship
was later handed over to the Soviet Baltic fleet. On Jan 11, 1945, it
hit a mine and sank off the coast of
Finland.
(Voruta #27-28, Jul 1996,
p.2)(http://tinyurl.com/cs545k)
1941 Mar 22, The Grand Coulee Dam
in Washington state went into operation.
(AP, 3/22/01)
1942 Mar 22, There was a heavy
German assault on Malta (3rd day).
(MC, 3/22/02)
1943 Mar 22, SS police chief
Rauter threatened to kill half Jewish children.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1944 Mar 22, Over 600 8th Air
Force bombers attacked Berlin.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1945 Mar 22, The Arab League was
formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. Saudi Arabia
became a founding member of the UN and the Arab League.
(AP, 3/22/97)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1945 Mar 22, The US 3rd Army
crossed the Rhine at Nierstein.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1946 Mar 22, First U.S. built
rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere reached a 50-mile height.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1946 Mar 22, The British mandate
in Transjordan came to an end. Britain signed a treaty granting
independence to Jordan.
(AP, 3/22/97)(HN, 3/22/97)
1948 Mar 22, Andrew Lloyd Webber,
Broadway composer, was born. His works include "Phantom of the Opera"
and "Cats."
(AP, 3/22/99)(HN, 3/22/97)
1948 Mar 22, The U.S. announced a
land reform plan for Korea.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1952 Mar 22, Bob Costas,
sportscaster, talk show host (Later), was born in Queens, NY.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1953 Mar 22, UC Pres. Robert
Gordon Sproul addressed a Charter Day banquet and contended that
faculty members who support the Communist Party do not deserve
membership in a university faculty.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.E3)
1954 Mar 22, The 1st shopping mall
opened in Southfield, Mich.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1954 Mar 22, The London gold
market reopened for the first time since 1939.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1955 Mar 22, Linda Stout became
the first person at Mayo Clinic, and the second person in the world, to
have open-heart surgery with the aid of a heart-lung bypass machine.
(www.mayoclinic.org/history/)
1956 Mar 22, Musical "Mr.
Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr. premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1957 Mar 22, An earthquake,
centered in Daly City, Ca., hit the SF Bay Area and caused extensive
damage to Mary’s Help Hospital.
(Ind, 8/11/01, 5A)(CW, Winter 04, p.45)(DCFD,
Centennial, 2007)
1958 Mar 22, Movie producer Mike
Todd (56) and three other people were killed in the crash of Todd's
private plane near Grants, N.M.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1960 Mar 22, The 1st patent for
lasers was granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes. Schawlow and
Townes developed their laser, light amplification by stimulated
emission of radiation, while working at Bell labs in 1958.
(www1.bell-labs.com/history/laser/)
(www.ipmall.info/about/user11.asp)
1963 Mar 22, British Minister of
War John Profumo denied having sex with Christine Keeler. The Profumo
call girl scandal almost toppled the government. Profumo, a leading
British Conservative and minister for war, was discovered to have been
involved with Keeler, a call girl who was also dealing with a Soviet
attaché. Valerie Hobson (d.1998 at 81), his actress wife, stood
by him after the scandal. A 1995 Masterpiece Theater TV play was based
on these events.
(TMC, 1994, p.1963)(WSJ, 12/28/95, p. A-5)(SFEC,
11/15/98, p.D5)(MC, 3/22/02)
1965 Mar 22, US confirmed its
troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1968 Mar 22, Gen'l. William
Westmoreland (1914-2005) was relieved of his duties in the wake of the
Tet disaster. Troop strength under Westmoreland had reached over
500,000 and he wanted more. He was succeeded by Gen'l. Creighton
Abrams. Abrams reversed Westmoreland's strategy. He ended major "search
and destroy" missions and focused on protecting population centers.
William Colby took charge of the pacification campaign. President
Lyndon B. Johnson named Gen. William C. Westmoreland to be the Army's
new Chief of Staff.
(HN, 3/22/97)(WSJ, 6/23/99, p.A24)(Econ, 7/30/05,
p.79)(AP, 3/22/08)
1968 Mar 22, In southern Thailand
Tuanku Biyo Kodoniyo set up the Pattani United Liberation Organization
(PULO). It called for an independent Islamic country.
(www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/pulo.htm)
1972 Mar 22, The US Congress
passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and sent it to
the states for ratification. The amendment died in 1982 when it fell
three states short of the 38, two-thirds, needed for approval.
(AP, 3/22/97)(HN,
3/22/97)(www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html)
1972 Mar 22, The Supreme Court
Eisenstadt vs. Baird decision struck down a law that banned the
distribution of birth control devices to unmarried people.
(SFC, 7/25/97,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstadt_v._Baird)
1974 Mar 22, The Viet Cong
proposed a new truce with the United States and South Vietnam, which
includes general elections.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1975 Mar 22, In Alabama a fire at
the Browns Ferry Unit 1 nuclear power plant caused $10 million in
damage and knocked the reactor out of service for over a year. A worker
checking for air leaks with a candle ignited insulation near the
control room. The reactor was mothballed in 1985. It was scheduled to
reopen in 2007 following a 5 year, $1.8 billion restoration.
(SFC, 5/5/07, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/33l4hc)
1977 Mar 22, President Carter
proposed the abolition of the Electoral College.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1977 Mar 22, Indira Gandhi revoked
emergency rule and resigned as PM of India.
(http://tinyurl.com/32tg72)
1978 Mar 22, 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 hotels in
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1979 Mar 22, The opera "Miss
Havisham’s Fire" by Dominick Argento premiered at the NYC Opera with
two 80-minute acts. It was based on a character in the 1861 novel
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens.
(WSJ, 7/2/01,
p.A12)(www.historicopera.com/listing_operas.htm)
1979 Mar 22, Israeli parliament
approved a peace treaty with Egypt.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/begin_closing.html)
1981 Mar 22, Postage rates went
from 15 cents an ounce to 18 cents an ounce.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1982 Mar 22, The US submarine
Jacksonville collided with a Turkish freighter near Virginia.
(http://navysite.de/ssn/ssn699.htm)
1986 Mar 22, World financier
Michele Sindona died two days after ingesting cyanide in his Italian
prison cell in what authorities later ruled a suicide.
(AP, 3/22/06)
1987 Mar 22, A garbage barge,
carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, N.Y., on a six-month journey
in search of a place to unload. The barge was turned away by several
states and three countries until space was found back in Islip.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1988 Mar 22, Both houses of
Congress overrode President Reagan's veto of a sweeping civil rights
bill.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1988 Mar 22, In Angola the battle
of Cuito Cuanavale changed the region's political landscape,
accelerating the independence of Namibia and the fall of apartheid in
South Africa. While the Cuban and Angolan forces claimed victory, South
Africa claimed it lost only 31 soldiers against 4,785 who fell on the
other side.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1988 Mar 22, Iraqi jets dropped a
variety of chemical weapons on the Kurdish town of Sewsenan, where
militiamen had fled following attacks on Halabja.
(SFC, 8/21/06, p.A6)
1989 Mar 22, US Supreme Court
upheld 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate.
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=489&invol=688)
1989 Mar 22, National Football
League Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced plans to retire.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1989 Mar 22, Fawn Hall, Oliver
North's former secretary, began two days of testimony at North's
Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1989 Mar 22, Ann Harrison (15) was
abducted as she waited for a school bus in front of her home in
Raytown, Missouri. African-Americans Roderick Nunley and Michael Taylor
forced her into a stolen car, raped and stabbed her to death. They left
her body in the boot of the car. Taylor and Nunley were convicted and
sentenced to death. In 2006 their execution was postponed pending a
decision on whether lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual
punishment.
(Econ, 7/22/06,
p.36)(http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=18038)
1990 Mar 22, A jury in Anchorage,
Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three
major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but
convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/00)
1991 Mar 22, Law enforcement
officers raided fraternities at Univ. of Virginia seizing drugs.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1991-3/1991-03-22-ABC-9.html)
1991 Mar 22, High school
instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into
killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of
murder-conspiracy.
(AP, 3/22/01)
1991 Mar 22, A US warplane shot
down a second Iraqi jet fighter that had violated the cease-fire ending
the Persian Gulf War.
(AP, 3/22/01)
1992 Mar 22, The show
"Conversations with My Father" opened at the Royale Theatre in NYC for
462 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4669)
1992 Mar 22, President Bush and
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrapped up a weekend of informal talks by
reiterating their resolve to break a deadlock on global trade talks.
(AP, 3/22/02)
1992 Mar 22, Twenty-seven people
were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed on takeoff from New York's La
Guardia Airport; 24 people survived.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1992 Mar 22, France's governing
Socialist Party was rebuffed in regional elections.
(AP, 3/22/02)
1993 Mar 22, Microsoft began
shipping its Encarta encyclopedia on CD-ROM. It had licensed content
from Funk & Wagnalls after being rebuffed by Britannica.
(Wired, 12/98, p.198)(WSJ, 3/18/09, p.A13)
1993 Mar 22, Intel introduced its
Pentium processor (80586): 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS.
(www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm#pentium)
1993 Mar 22, The launch of the
space shuttle Columbia was scrubbed with three seconds left in the
countdown.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1993 Mar 22, Cleveland Indians
pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews were killed when the boat they were
riding in slammed into a Florida pier; pitcher Bob Ojeda was seriously
injured.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1993 Mar 22, The 1st World Water
Day. On Dec 22, 1992, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution
A/RES/47/193 by which 22 March of each year was declared World Day for
Water, to be observed starting in 1993.
(www.unesco.org/water/water_celebrations/index.shtml)
1994 Mar 22, The US Federal
Reserve for fear of inflation announced it was raising short-term
interest rates from 3.25 to 3.5%, the second such boost of the year. By
Nov the 10-year bond rate rose to 8% from about 5.4% the previous
September.
(AP, 3/22/99)(SSFC, 7/6/03, p.I1)
1994 Mar 22, Walter Lantz, "Woody
Woodpecker" creator, died in Burbank, Calif., at age 93.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1995 Mar 22, Shouting erupted in
the U.S. House of Representatives as Democrats bitterly accused
majority Republicans of trying to ram through a mean-spirited welfare
overhaul bill.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1995 Mar 22, Convicted Long Island
Rail Road gunman Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for
killing six people.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1996 Mar 22, Shannon Lucid,
astronaut, went into space on the shuttle Atlantis. She transferred to
the Russian Mir space station and broke the US space endurance record
of 115 days on 7/15/96.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A7)(AP, 3/22/97)
1997 Mar 22, The show "Sunset
Boulevard" closed at Minskoff in NYC after 977 performances.
(http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=4275)
1997 Mar 22, In Lausanne, Switz.,
Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest
women's world figure skating champion.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1997 Mar 22, The Hale-Bopp comet
made its closest approach to Earth at 122 million miles. On Apr 1 it
will make its closest approach to the sun, perihelion, at some 85 miles
distance.
(SFC, 3/28/97, p.A12)
1997 Mar 22, In Canada five Solar
Temple cult members died in an apparent mass suicide in Quebec.
Devotees believed that suicide transports them to a new life in a place
called Sirius.
(WSJ, 3/24/97, p.A1)(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A19)
1997 Mar 22, In France Etienne
Bacrat, “the Mozart of Chess,” became a grand master at the age of 14.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, p.A13)
1997 Mar 22, A day after a suicide
bomber killed three women in Tel Aviv, Israeli troops clashed with
hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1997 Mar 22, In Tanzania the worst
drought in 40 years was reported.
(SFC, 3/22/97, p.A4)
1998 Mar 22, President Clinton
departed Washington for an historic 12-day tour of Africa.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1998 Mar 22, A deeply divided
United Auto Workers union approved a new contract with Caterpillar
Inc., ending a 6 1/2-year contract battle.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1998 Mar 22, In Miles Township,
Pa., 11 students were killed in a cabin fire while on a camping trip.
(SFC, 3/23/98, p.A2)(AP, 3/22/99)
1998 Mar 22, Kosovo Albanians
elected Ibrahim Rugova as president. Serb officials pronounced the
elections meaningless.
(SFC, 3/23/98, p.A9)
1998 Mar 22, In Moldova elections
were held and the Communist party received about 30% of the vote.
Political parties scrambled to form a coalition to keep the Communists
out of power.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.A14)
1998 Mar 22, A Philippine Airbus
320 jetliner overshot its runway on landing and hit a row of houses and
a disco in Bacolod. 3 people were killed and a hundred injured.
(WSJ, 3/23/98, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, The Clinton
administration announced new food deals for North Korea to total $60
million.
(WSJ, 3/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, Acting as his own
lawyer, Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial on murder charges for the
first time, telling a jury in Pontiac, Mich., he was merely carrying
out his professional duty in a videotaped assisted death shown on "60
Minutes." Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1999 Mar 22, A woman, held as a
sex hostage, escaped from David Ray and Cindy Hendy near Elephant Butte
Lake, NM. Ray and Hendy were arrested on charges of kidnapping and
torture and then other reports emerged that 4-6 other victims had been
mutilated and dumped into the lake.
(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 22, The Volantor, a
flying car, was described. It was designed by Paul Moller of Davis,
Ca., and estimated to have range of 900 miles.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 22, In Congo Mai Mai
warriors hired by Rwanda were reported to have killed 100 people.
Rwanda denied the report.
(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, Serb attacks on
ethnic Albanians continued after envoy Richard Holbrooke failed to
convince Pres. Milosevic to stop.
(WSJ, 3/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, In Sierra Leone at
least 150 people drowned when an overloaded motorized canoe capsized
near Tasso.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A14)
2000 Mar 22, The US Senate voted
to abolish the Social Security income penalty for people aged 65-69.
Pres. Clinton promised to sign the bill. The penalty had reduced
benefits by $1 for every $3 eared above $17,000.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.A3)
2000 Mar 22, The federal
government agreed to pay a record $508 million to settle a sex
discrimination lawsuit filed by some 1,100 women at the now-defunct US
Information Agency in 1977. Another $23 million was for back pay,
interest and retirement benefits. It was the largest-ever settlement of
a federal sex discrimination case.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.A1)(AP, 3/22/01)
2000 Mar 22, Four Florida counties
were declared agricultural disaster areas due to a spreading citrus
canker. Half the lime crop was already destroyed in the southern part
of the state.
(WSJ, 3/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 22, Gunmen ambushed
Arkady Gukasyan, the president of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave
in Azerbaijan. 28 suspects were arrested.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.D2)
2000 Mar 22, In Bethlehem Pope
John Paul II affirmed support for a Palestinian homeland.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.A1)(AP, 3/22/01)
2000 Mar 22, In Nigeria a pipeline
fire killed 50 people siphoning off gas in Abia state.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.D2)
2001 Mar 22, Pres. Bush met with
Chinese Deputy Premier Qian Qichen and said the US would support
Taiwan’s military needs.
(WSJ, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, In California Jason
Hoffman (18) opened fire at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, San
Diego County. 10 people were injured. Hoffman reached a plea agreement
and faced at least 27 years in prison. Hoffman hanged himself and was
found dead in his cell Oct 29.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A3)(SFC,
9/14/01, p.A28)(SFC, 10/30/01, p.E10)
2001 Mar 22, William Hanna
(b.1910), animation pioneer, died in Los Angeles. Cartoon characters
that he helped create included Fred Flintstone, Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi
Bear, Papa Smurf, as well as Tom and Jerry.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D7)(AP, 3/22/02)(NW, 12/31/01,
p.107)
2001 Mar 22, Yevgeny Plushchenko
captured the World Figure Skating Championships crown in Vancouver,
British Columbia.
(AP, 3/22/02)
2001 Mar 22, Two Albanians were
killed by Macedonian police at a checkpoint when they appeared to pull
grenades. The EU urged Macedonia to show restraint and intensify
discussions with Albanian militants.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 22, In Ireland a case of
foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in County Louth, on the border
with Northern Ireland. 40,000 cattle were destroyed.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D5)(WSJ, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, In Mexico the Chamber
of Deputies voted to allow Zapatista leaders to speak before an
informal session of Congress.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D2)
2001 Mar 22, Russia threatened to
expel 50 American personnel in response to US expulsions of Russian
intelligence agents.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, The Russian Duma was
expected to pass a bill to allow the storage of spent nuclear fuel for
projected earnings of some $20 billion.
(WSJ, 3/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, Sabiha Gokcen,
Turkey's 1st woman pilot and the adopted daughter of Ataturk, died.
Armenians held that she was Armenian by birth.
(Econ, 3/27/04, p.52)
2001 Mar 22, UN Sec.-Gen. Kofi
Annan said that he agreed to seek a 2nd five-year term.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D5)
2002 Mar 22, The TV show “Wall
Street Week” with Louis Rukeyser, begun in 1970, was scheduled for its
last show on Jun 28, but PBS dropped Mr. Rukeyser after this evening’s
broadcast.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.B5)(WSJ, 4/1/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 22, Pres. Bush addressed
the UN meeting in Monterey, Mexico, and called on wealthy nations to
link foreign aid to economic reform. Bush had already proposed an extra
$10 billion over 3 years starting in 2004. US aid was about .01% of GDP
as compared to 1% of GDP for Denmark.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.D3)
2002 Mar 22, The US State Dept.
ordered all non-essential Embassy and Consulate personnel in Pakistan
to return home.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 22, A US postal panel
approved a 3 cent increase in first-class stamps to 37 cents around Jun
30.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 22, A Portland,
Oregon, jury ordered Philip Morris to pay $150 million in
punitive damages for falsely representing low-tar cigarettes as
healthier than regular cigarettes.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A4)
2002 Mar 22, Thomas Kelly (72),
the Grumman engineer who had overseen the building of the 1969 lunar
module, died.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A24)
2002 Mar 22, The Argentine peso
closed down 18% to 3.1 to the dollar. IMF loans appeared distant.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 22, Israelis and
Palestinians resumed cease-fire negotiations despite another suicide
bombing outside Jenin. Only the bomber was killed.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 22, It was reported that
the Taiwan government had seized copies of Next magazine that included
details of a secret $100 million fund used by former pres. Lee Teng-hui
and current officials for diplomatic missions and policy initiatives.
Some 220,000 copies did get distributed.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A10)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A5)
2003 Mar 22, Many thousands of
people marched in cities around the world or demonstrated outside U.S.
military bases, but the demonstrations were far smaller than earlier
protests.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2003 Mar 22, U.S. forces reported
seizing a large weapons cache in Afghanistan.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2003 Mar 22, Scientists believe
they have found the virus responsible for the mystery SARS virus and
announced a test to diagnose it.
(AP, 3/23/03)
2003 Mar 22, In the 4th day of
Operation Iraqi Freedom intermittent explosions were heard throughout
the day in Baghdad and by late afternoon at least 12 huge columns of
smoke could be seen rising from all along the southern horizon of the
city. US and British forces reached half way to Baghdad and British
forces were left surrounding Basra.
(AP, 3/22/03)(SSFC, 3/23/03, p.W1)
2003 Mar 22, A 4-man ITN TV crew
drove into a war zone near Az Zubayr, Iraq, and reporter Terry Lloyd
(50) was killed. 2 men went missing and one escaped.
(WSJ, 5/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 22, Two British Royal
Navy helicopters collided over the Persian Gulf, killing all 7 on board
including a US Navy officer.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, Burundi's hard-line
Hutu rebel group expressed satisfaction with its first round of peace
talks in Switzerland.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, Dozens of Chechen
rebels surrendered their weapons in a ceremony apparently designed to
promote harmony on the eve of a constitutional referendum.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, A gas explosion
killed 28 people and trapped 45 others in a coal mine in northern China.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, In eastern Congo an
overloaded ferry traveling between rebel-held ports sank in Lake
Tanganyika, killing 111 people. It was sailing in Burundian waters to
avoid rival tribal fighters.
(AP, 3/24/03)
2003 Mar 22, Thousands of angry
protesters from Japan to Greece marched Saturday against the US-led war
in Iraq.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a
US soldier, threw grenades into 3 tents at Camp Pennsylvania, a 101st
Airborne command center in Kuwait, killing one fellow serviceman and
wounding 13. In 2005 Akbar was convicted of premeditated and attempted
murder. On April 28, 2005, Akbar was sentenced to death.
(AP, 3/23/03)(SFC, 4/22/05, p.A13)(SFC, 4/29/05,
p.A10)
2003 Mar 22, In Nigeria ethnic
militants threatened to blow up 11 multinational oil installations they
claimed to have captured in retaliation for military raids.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2004 Mar 22, Terry Nichols went on
trial for his life in the Oklahoma City bombing. Nichols was already
serving a life sentence for his conviction on federal charges. On May
26 he was found guilty of 161 state murder charges, but was again
spared the death penalty when the jury couldn't agree on his sentence.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2004 Mar 22, Afghan soldiers
deployed to the western city of Herat after some of the fiercest
factional fighting since the 2001 fall of the Taliban killed a Cabinet
minister and as many as 100 others.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2004 Mar 22, A car bomb blew up
near a U.S. Air Force base north of Baghdad, killing two Iraqi
civilians and wounding 25 others. The U.S. military said a bomb killed
a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter in Baghdad.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2004 Mar 22, The Finnish Foreign
Ministry said two Finnish businessmen were shot and killed in Baghdad.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2004 Mar 22, Israel killed Hamas
founder Ahmed Yassin and 7 other Hamas members in a helicopter missile
strike outside a Gaza City mosque, prompting threats of unprecedented
revenge by thousands of Palestinian. Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a quadriplegic
preacher, founded the Islamic militant group Hamas in 1987 and presided
over its rise to a violent, radical alternative to Yasser Arafat's
Palestinian Authority.
(AP, 3/22/04)(USAT, 3/23/04, p.1A)
2004 Mar 22, In Malaysia Abdullah
Ahmad Badawi was sworn in as prime minister, a day after scoring a
landslide election victory that handed the fundamentalist Islamic
opposition its worst defeat in more than a decade. The national Front
Coalition won 199 out of 219 seats in parliament.
(AP, 3/22/04)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.53)
2004 Mar 22, Oil giant Royal
Dutch/Shell said it plans to streamline its operations in Nigeria. An
estimated 1,500 people, or about 30 percent of its work force of about
5,000, will be laid off.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2004 Mar 22, In Pakistan
assailants launched two rocket attacks on government forces on the edge
of a bloody offensive against al-Qaeda militants and 15 soldiers were
killed near Sarwakai. A mile-long tunnel from a tribal compound toward
the Afghan border was discovered.
(AP, 3/23/04)(WSJ, 3/23/04, p.A1)(SFC, 4/2/04, p.A11)
2005 Mar 22, World Water Day. The
UN General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/47/193 of 22 December 1992
by which 22 March of each year was declared World Day for Water, to be
observed starting in 1993.
(www.unesco.org/water/water_celebrations/index.shtml)
2005 Mar 22, The US Federal
Reserve raised its fed funds rate a quarter point to 2.75%.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 22, A federal judge in
Florida refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding
tube, denying an emergency request from the brain-damaged woman's
parents.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Iowa enacted a law
requiring an ID check and signature before the sale of cold remedies
containing an ingredient for methamphetamine.
(WSJ, 3/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 22, Anna Ayala of Las
Vegas claimed that she bit into a piece of human finger while eating
chili at a Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, Ca. Ayala was arrested on
Apr 21 on suspicion of attempted grand theft. Police later reported the
finger came from an acquaintance of Ayala’s husband, who lost it in an
industrial accident. Ayala and her husband Jaime Placencia pleaded
guilty to all charges on Sep 9. In 2006 both were sentenced to 9 years
in prison and ordered top pay $21.2 million in restitution to Wendy’s
Int’l.
(SFC, 3/25/05, p.A1)(SFC, 5/14/05, p.A1)(SFC,
9/10/05, p.A1)(SFC, 1/19/06, p.B1)
2005 Mar 22, IBM unveiled new
anti-span technology called FairUCE. It used a giant database to
identify computers sending spam and returned e-mails from those listed
back to the sending machine.
(WSJ, 3/22/05, p.B1)
2005 Mar 22, Officials from the
ministry of health and the World Health Organization (WHO) said a
deadly haemorrhagic fever that has claimed the lives of 96 people,
mainly children, in Angola's northern Uige province has been identified
as the rare Marburg virus.
(www.meritcare.com/news/world/viewarticle.asp?id=18843)
2005 Mar 22, Astronomers reported
a faint heat glow from giant planets circling distant stars.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 22, In Afghanistan US
warplanes killed five suspected Taliban or al-Qaida militants near the
Pakistani border after guerrillas launched an overnight rocket and gun
attack on American and Afghan military positions.
(AP, 3/23/05)
2005 Mar 22, In Afghanistan US-led
forces trying to capture a suspected Taliban militant got into a
firefight that left seven people dead, including two children and a
woman.
(AP, 3/24/05)
2005 Mar 22, French lawmakers
voted to dismantle the 35-hour workweek.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 22, Gunmen in
Port-au-Prince opened fire on the house of Haiti's justice minister,
killing a police officer in a brazen attack that underscored the
country's shaky security climate.
(AP, 3/23/05)
2005 Mar 22, India said it has
reached a basic agreement with Japan on the joint development of
natural gas off the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
(AFP, 3/26/05)
2005 Mar 22, Militants targeted a
US patrol with a roadside bomb that killed four nearby civilians in the
northern city of Mosul. In Baghdad private citizens struck an insurgent
patrol carrying grenades and killed 3 in a gun battle.
(AP, 3/22/05)(SFC, 3/23/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 22, Iraqi and US forces
killed 80 militants in a battle west of Tikrit.
(AP, 3/23/05)
2005 Mar 22, Israel completed its
handover of the West Bank town of Tulkarem to Palestinian security
control.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Kenzo Tange (91),
Japanese architect, died. His work included the stadiums for the 1964
Tokyo Olympics.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.B7)
2005 Mar 22, A Jordanian military
court convicted three Iraqis of smuggling rockets and hand grenades
into the kingdom in connection with a plot to attack U.S. and Israeli
targets.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Kyrgyzstan President
Askar Akayev's spokesman said protests sweeping are part of a "coup"
designed by criminals. The government signaled it has no intention of
accepting election fraud charges that have fueled the massive rallies.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Nigeria’s Pres.
Olusegun Obasanjo fired his education minister, Fabian Osuji, accusing
him of bribing lawmakers including the Senate leader Adolphus Wabara
and a string of other named senators of taking bribes totaling $398,550.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, North Korea's Premier
Pak Pong Ju began a visit to China at a time of American calls for
Beijing to use its influence to prod the North back into nuclear talks.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Pakistan released 564
Indians, mostly fisherman, from its prisons in a goodwill gesture
toward neighboring India.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2006 Mar 22, The US government
announced charges against 50 leftist Colombian guerrilla leaders in
connection with shipments of $25 billion in cocaine to the US and other
countries.
(SFC, 3/23/06, p.A9)
2006 Mar 22, In Tennessee, Matthew
Winkler (31), a minister at Selmer's Church of Christ, was found dead
in the parsonage after he missed an evening service and church members
went searching for him. On March 24 Tennessee authorities said they
would charge Mary Winkler, the minister's wife with first-degree
murder. In 2007 Mary Winkler was sentenced to 3 years in prison. She
had testified that her husband abused her physically and emotionally.
(AP, 3/24/06)(AP, 6/9/07)
2006 Mar 22, General Motors Corp.
and the auto parts supplier it once owned, Delphi Corp., announced
deals with the United Auto Workers that would offer buyouts to 13,000
hourly Delphi employees and up to 100,000 hourly GM workers represented
by the United Auto Workers.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, In Bolivia bombs
exploded inside two low-budget hotels in La Paz overnight, killing two
people and wounding seven. Triston Jay Amero (24), an American from
Placerville, Ca., and Alda Ribeiro (45), of Uruguay, were arrested in
connection with the bombings. Amero had earlier described himself as
“the Superman of Loosers.”
(AP, 3/22/06)(SFC, 3/24/06, p.B12)
2006 Mar 22, In Brazil the US
Embassy said agents from the US Department of Homeland Security will
soon be helping Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay combat money laundering
and terrorism financing.
(AP, 3/23/06)
2006 Mar 22, A ferry carrying 150
passengers sank off the coast of Cameroon, and 23 people were rescued.
The rest were feared dead. The ferry was bound for Gabon from Nigeria
with passengers from Burkina Faso, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast.
(AP, 3/23/06)(SFC, 3/24/06, p.A12)
2006 Mar 22, In Canada a BC
Ferries sank in the middle of the night after hitting Gil Island near
the village of Hartley Bay, on its scheduled route down the rugged
British Columbia coast. 99 passengers and crew made it to lifeboats,
but 2 passengers failed to escape.
(Reuters, 3/12/08)
2006 Mar 22, In northern Chile a
tour bus swerved to avoid an approaching truck and tumbled 300 feet
down a mountainside, killing 12 American tourists and injuring two
others.
(AP, 3/23/06)
2006 Mar 22, An Ethiopian court
dropped charges of treason, attempted genocide and other crimes against
18 people, including five Voice of America journalists, accused of
attempting to overthrow the government.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, The EU approved a
first-ever joint blacklist of nearly 100 mostly African airlines
considered to be unsafe, in a move spurred by a spate of fatal crashes
last year. The list, effective March 25, bans 92 airlines from plying
EU skies all together and puts restrictions on another three from
flying certain types of airplanes into the 25-nation bloc.
(AFP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, Pierre Clostermann
(85), French fighter pilot and WW II hero, died. In 1948 he published
the story of his exploits under the title “Le Grand Cirque.” The
English version was titled “The Big Show.”
(Econ, 4/8/06, p.85)
2006 Mar 22, Indonesia's Papua
remained tense with hundreds of students hiding in the jungle to evade
a police manhunt, as the death toll from riots over a US-run mine rose
to six.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, Insurgents attacked a
police station for a second day in a row, but US and Iraqi forces
captured 50 of them after a two-hour gunbattle.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, Israeli troops raided
the Aqwar Jaba West Bank refugee camp, killing a wanted Palestinian
militant and forcing two others to surrender.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, In Mexico Omar
Pimentel (38), the police chief of the border city of Nuevo Laredo,
resigned. He said he was tired from the stress of working in a city
dominated by drug cartels fighting a bloody turf war.
(AP, 3/24/06)
2006 Mar 22, In the Netherlands an
appeals chamber of the UN war crimes court dropped the life sentence of
Bosnian Serb Milomir Stakic and instead sentenced him to 40 years for
overseeing detention camps in Bosnia.
(AFP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, In Nigeria heavy
winds ripped away much of the top nine floors of a fire-weakened
building in Lagos, raining debris on mostly empty streets and leaving
people on lower floors waving frantically for help.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, The Basque separatist
group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire, ending a decades-long
campaign of violence and closing the door on one of Western Europe's
last active armed separatist movements.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, In Thailand a truck
crashed through a railroad crossing barrier and slammed into a
passenger train in Ratchaburi, causing a derailment and killing at
least six people.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, The UN gave a green
light to abolish the discredited Human Rights Commission on June 16,
clearing the way for the new Human Rights Council to become the UN's
main rights watchdog.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, World Water Day. The
1st WWD was designated 13 years ago by the UN General Assembly.
(AFP, 3/22/06)
2007 Mar 22, North Carolina Sen.
John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth made a joint announcement that he
will continue his bid for the White House despite the recurrence of her
breast cancer.
(SFC, 3/23/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 22, A US federal judge
dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet
pornography, striking down a 1998 US law that makes it a crime for
commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, In southern
California authorities said 5 people had been arrested for running a
prostitution ring that offered sex with immigrant Chinese women.
(SFC, 3/23/07, p.B6)
2007 Mar 22, In Hawaii Dorie-Ann
Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a
mansion, courtesy of billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto, a Japanese real
estate mogul, who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar
homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families. Asked whether he was
concerned about losing money on the effort, he laughed and said: "This
is pocket money for me."
(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Mar 22, Missouri’s state
board of education voted to take over the St. Louis school district,
effective in mid-June.
(Econ, 3/31/07, p.38)
2007 Mar 22, Fighting between
Afghan forces and Taliban militants in Helmand province killed at least
49 militants and 7 police in what appears to be the biggest independent
operation yet by Afghan forces. Taliban commanders tried to negotiate
an end to four days of battles between Pakistani tribesmen and foreign
Al-Qaeda militants that have left at least 120 dead.
(AP, 3/22/07)(AFP, 3/22/07)(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Mar 22, Rafik Khalifa (40),
the head of a bank at the centre of Algeria's biggest corruption
scandal, was sentenced in absentia to life in prison. Khalifa has been
exiled in London since 2003, when hundreds of millions of dollars was
discovered missing from the Khalifa Bank. Algeria has been seeking his
extradition. The exiled former governor of the central bank,
Abdelawahab Keramane, and five others were also sentenced in abstentia
to 20 years in prison.
(AFP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Gordon Brown,
Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the government will grant
35 billion pounds to Northern Ireland over the next four years.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Counter-terrorist
police in England arrested three men in connection with the 2005
suicide attacks on the London transit system. London police said a man
held hostage for nine days following a dispute between drugs gangs has
been freed in Liverpool in what was the longest-running kidnap they
have ever dealt with.
(AFP, 3/22/07)(AP, 3/22/08)
2007 Mar 22, In Congo heavy
gunfire broke out in Kinshasa near the home of a former warlord who
placed second in last fall's presidential vote. Soldiers deployed
throughout the city, and residents fled in vehicles and on foot.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, The EU approved an
aviation deal with the US that opens up restricted trans-Atlantic
routes to new rivals, but bowed to British concerns in delaying when
the agreement takes effect. The EU said Boeing has benefited from $23.7
billion in illegal state aid, hitting back at the US in a tit-for-tat
row at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over plane subsidies.
(AP, 3/22/07)(Reuters, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, France became the
first country to open its files on UFOs when the national space agency
unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five
decades.
(AFP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, In Iraq a rocket
landed near the prime minister's office during the first visit to Iraq
by the head of the UN in nearly a year and a half, sending
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ducking unharmed behind a podium at a
news conference. The US military announced that it had captured the
leaders of a Shiite insurgent network "directly connected" to the
killing in January of five American soldiers in Karbala by gunmen
speaking English, wearing US military uniforms and carrying American
weapons. The arrests of Qais Khazaali, his brother Laith Khazaali and
several other members of the network took place over the past three
days. In Baqouba the bullet-ridden body of a kidnapped local official
and mother of three was found dumped on a city street, one day after
masked gunmen stormed her house and took her away handcuffed. A US
soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the western section of Baghdad
while his unit was engaged in "route clearance operations."
(AP, 3/22/07)(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Mar 22, A Japanese court
sentenced Ryoji Miyauchi, former chief financial officer of dot-com
company Livedoor, to 20 months in prison for inflating earnings reports.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Brian Joubert became
the first Frenchman in 42 years to win the world title by taking the
men's event at the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2007 Mar 22, Malaysia and Thailand
agreed to map out a series of socio-economic measures to end rising
sectarian tensions and violence in the kingdom's insurgency-wracked
south.
(AFP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, In Mozambique an
explosion at a weapons depot in a densely populated neighborhood of
Maputo killed at least 96 people and left more than 400 injured, many
of them children.
(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Mar 22, Talks on halting
North Korea's nuclear program broke down abruptly on with the country's
chief nuclear envoy flying home after a dispute over money frozen in a
Macau bank could not be resolved.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, In Pakistan lawyers
held fresh protests over the removal of the chief justice, as an
inquiry into the beating of attorneys by police at another
demonstration got under way. Pakistan successfully test-fired a
nuclear-capable cruise missile with the capability to avoid radar
detection.
(AFP, 3/22/07)(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, South Korea said it
would build a park in memory of victims of the U.S. Army's mass killing
of South Korean refugees at the village of No Gun Ri.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Somali and Ethiopian
troops battled insurgents for a second day in Mogadishu. The Somali
government said Al-Qaeda has named Aden Hashi Ayro, a ruthless Islamist
commander, as its leader in Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/22/07)(AFP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Smugglers taking
illegal migrants from Somalia to Yemen forced hundreds of Africans
overboard in stormy seas in an effort to make a fast getaway from
security forces. 31 bodies were found and nearly 90 people remained
missing.
(AP, 3/27/07)
2007 Mar 22, Sudan temporarily
suspended 52 non-governmental organizations working in Darfur as the
new UN humanitarian chief began his first visit to the country, hoping
to win aid groups better access to the region.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Zimbabwe's Catholic
Archbishop Pius Ncube urged his countrymen to stand up to the
iron-fisted government of President Robert Mugabe. State-media reported
that the Zimbabwean government has urged African nations to join hands
to fight domination by powerful Western countries. A Harare court ruled
that injured activists could seek treatment abroad.
(AFP, 3/22/07)(Reuters, 3/22/07)
2008 Mar 22, Michael Kassel (54),
San Francisco blues musician (the Hellhounds) poet known as Vampyre
Mike, died after a long illness. His books included “Graveyard Golf”
and “Going for the Low Blow.”
(SSFC, 4/20/08, p.B6)
2008 Mar 22, Israel Lopez, Cuban
bassist and composer known as “Cachao,” died in Miami. He is credited
with pioneering the mambo style of music (1937). In 1993 Andy Garcia, a
Cuban American actor, made a documentary of Cachao’s career.
(SSFC, 3/23/08, p.A2)
2008 Mar 22, Afghan and
international forces killed over 40 Taliban militants in an air and
ground strike in Uruzgan province. 2 coalition soldiers were killed by
a roadside bomb in Kandahar province.
(AP, 3/23/08)(SFC, 3/24/08, p.A12)
2008 Mar 22, In Bangladesh an
emergency official said a tropical storm has killed at least five
people. The storm also leveled around 3,000 huts.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, The population of
Botswana numbered about 1.8 million.
(Econ, 3/22/08, p.74)
2008 Mar 22, China said 19 people
died in riots in the Tibetan capital last week and official media
warned against the unrest spreading to the northwest region of
Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims bridle under Chinese control. Exiled
Tibetans claim as many as 100 have died in the protests which spilled
over this week into neighboring ethnic-Tibetan areas.
(Reuters, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, More than 500 African
Union troops arrived on the Comoros island of Moheli to join local
forces massed for a military offensive to retake the rebel island of
Anjouan.
(AFP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, The population of the
Union of Comoros was about 840,000.
(Econ, 3/22/08, p.55)
2008 Mar 22, Population if
Djibouti was about 800,000.
(Econ, 3/22/08, p.55)
2008 Mar 22, Egyptian and European
archeologists announced they had discovered a giant statue of Queen
Tiy, the wife of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III, on the south Egypt
site of the Colossi of Memnon.
(AFP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, Eighteen Ukrainian
sailors were missing after their tug boat sank off the Hong Kong coast
following a collision with a cargo ship. 7 people were rescued. On Dec
13, 2010, a Hong Kong court convicted four seamen over the deaths of
the 18 Ukrainian sailors.
(Reuters, 3/23/08)(AFP, 1/13/10)
2008 Mar 22, A US airstrike struck
two checkpoints manned by US-allied Sunni fighters in Samarra, killing
six and injuring two. A suicide bomber drove a truck laden with
explosives into the home of the mayor in Samarra. 3 security guards
were killed and four others injured. A bomb exploded on a minibus in a
predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, killing at least one
passenger and injuring 8. An awakening council member in western
Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood was killed and four others were injured
in a mortar blast. A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed one
passer-by and injured 7, in the northern city of Kirkuk. A roadside
bombing northwest of Baghdad killed 3 US soldiers and two Iraqi
civilians.
(AP, 3/22/08)(AP, 3/23/08)
2008 Mar 22, Magdi Allam (55),
Italy's most prominent Muslim, converted to Catholicism in a baptism by
the pope at a Vatican Easter service. The iconoclastic writer has
condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, US Vice President
Dick Cheney completing a two-day stay in Saudi Arabia, discussed ways
to stabilize the energy market with Saudi King Abdullah.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, In southern Sudan two
World Food Program (WFP) drivers on their way to the oil-rich Abyei
state were stabbed to death by six assailants.
(Reuters, 3/26/08)
2008 Mar 22, Ma Ying-jeou (57),
Taiwan's opposition candidate of the KMT, cruised to victory in the
presidential election, promising to expand economic ties with China
while protecting the island from being swallowed up politically by its
giant communist neighbor. Ma, a Harvard-educated lawyer and a former
mayor of Taipei, won 58% of the votes compared to 41.5% for DPP
challenger Frank Hsieh. The official Central Election Commission said
Taiwan's two referendums on joining the UN have failed.
(AP, 3/22/08)(Econ, 3/29/08, p.54)
2008 Mar 22, In Turkey dozens of
people were injured and scores detained as police used truncheons and
tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several eastern cities.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2009 Mar 22, In Montana a
single-engine turboprop airplane crashed just short of Butte’s Bert
Mooney Airport, killing all 14 people aboard, including 7 children. The
aircraft had departed from Oroville, Calif., and the pilot had filed a
flight plan showing a destination of Bozeman.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, Frank Bogert (1910),
long time mayor of Palm Springs, Ca., died. He was elected to the City
Council as a Republican in 1958 and was appointed major. He stepped
down after 9 years in office and in 1992 became the city’s first
elected mayor.
(WSJ, 4/4/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 22, Afghan and US-led
coalition troops killed five suspected militants during a raid in
northern Kunduz province. But the local mayor said his house was
targeted and that the dead included his cook and driver. A rocket
slammed into the main NATO military base at Kandahar airfield, killing
a contractor and wounding six others. 2 NATO soldiers were killed in a
"hostile incident" in the same region.
(AP, 3/22/09)(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Australia warring
bikers brawled through the Sidney airport, beating one suspected gang
member to death and brandishing metal poles "like swords" as they
rampaged through the main domestic terminal in front of terrified
travelers. Anthony Zervas (29) was bludgeoned to death with a crowd
control barrier pole during the fracas. On June 30 Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi
(29), head of the Comanchero motorcycle gang, was charged with murder.
(AP, 3/22/09)(AFP, 6/30/09)
2009 Mar 22, In England a murder
hunt started with the discovery of a victim's left leg and foot on the
side of a Hertfordshire road. By Apr 11 all other body parts were found
except for the man’s hands.
(AFP, 4/13/09)
2009 Mar 22, British reality
television star Jade Goody (27) died in her sleep, after a very public
battle with cervical cancer.
(AFP, 3/22/09)(Econ, 3/28/09, p.98)
2009 Mar 22, In India the Election
Commission found Varun Gandhi (29), the great-grandson of India's first
prime minister, guilty of hate speech and inciting violence against
Muslims. He was filmed on March 16 comparing a rival Muslim politician
to Osama Bin Laden and threatening to cut the throats of Muslims during
two political rallies earlier this month.
(AP, 3/23/09)(Econ, 4/4/09, p.46)
2009 Mar 22, Macedonia held
elections. The governing party's Gjorgje Ivanov (49) emerged as
favorite to win the presidency in an April 5 runoff vote against
51-year-old Social Democrat Ljubomir Frckoski.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Mexico gunmen
killed Edgar Garcia, a state police commander in charge of
investigating kidnappings and extortion in the western state of
Michoacan.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Pakistan Iftikhar
Mohammed Chaudhry, the chief justice whose ouster spurred waves of
protests that led to a president's downfall, returned to work, while
the ruling party and opposition resolved to cooperate despite their own
clash over his reinstatement.
(AP, 3/22/09)
2009 Mar 22, A group of Saudi
clerics urged the kingdom's new information minister to ban women from
appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines, making clear that the
country's hardline religious establishment is skeptical of a new push
toward moderation.
(AP, 3/22/09)
2009 Mar 22, Off the coast of
Somalia pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons
at Japanese, Greek and Hong Kong cargo ships but fled after the ships
took evasive maneuvers.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, In South Africa the
Sunday Independent said the Chinese embassy in South Africa had
confirmed its government had appealed to South Africa not to allow the
Dalai Lama into the country for a peace conference on March 27.
Archbishop Tutu threatened to pull out of the meeting and to demand an
explanation from the authorities. On March 24 organizers postponed the
South African peace conference of Nobel laureates after the government
denied a visa to Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
(AP, 3/22/09)(AP, 3/24/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Sri Lanka the
military said it had killed two rebel leaders during fighting in the
northeast of the island, where the LTTE guerrillas are cornered.
(AFP, 3/22/09)
2009 Mar 22, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez, who has for years funneled state oil income into sweeping
social programs, vowed to cut nonessential state spending and order a
review of top officials' salaries as oil income plunges. Chavez also
called President Barack Obama "ignorant," saying he has a lot to learn
about Latin America.
(AP, 3/22/09)
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