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1556Mar 22Cardinal Reginald Pole became archbishop of Canterbury.
1599Mar 22Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish artist, was born. He gave his name to the Vandyke beard.
1659Mar 22The Warsaw parliament decided to issue metal currency, shillings, for Lithuania and Poland.
1719Mar 22Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.
1778Mar 22Captain Cook sighted Cape Flattery in Washington state.
1786Mar 22Joachim Lelevelis was born in Warsaw. He became a renowned historian and Prof. at Vilnius Univ. He died May 29, 1861 in Paris.
1841Mar 22Cornstarch was patented by Orlando Jones.
1871Mar 22William Holden of NC became the 1st US governor removed by impeachment.
1874Mar 22Young Men’s Hebrew Association was organized in NYC.
1894Mar 22Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; the home team Montreal Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals, 3-1.
1902Mar 22Great Britain and Persia agreed to link Europe and India by telegraph.
1904Mar 22The first color photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.
1912Mar 22Karl Malden (d.2009), later film and TV star, was born as Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago.
1917Mar 22The U.S. became the first to recognize the Kerensky Government in Russia.
1919Mar 22The first international airline service was inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.
1929Mar 22A US Coast Guard vessel sank a Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor.
1934Mar 22Philippine independence was granted by the US and was guaranteed to begin in 1945.
1942Mar 22There was a heavy German assault on Malta (3rd day).
1948Mar 22Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway composer, was born. His works include “Phantom of the Opera” and “Cats.”
1956Mar 22Musical “Mr. Wonderful” with Sammy Davis Jr. premiered in NYC.
1974Mar 22The Viet Cong proposed a new truce with the United States and South Vietnam, which includes general elections.
1989Mar 22National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced plans to retire.
1992Mar 22The show “Conversations with My Father” opened at the Royale Theatre in NYC for 462 performances.
1993Mar 22Microsoft began shipping its Encarta encyclopedia on CD-ROM. It had licensed content from Funk & Wagnalls after being rebuffed by Britannica.
1995Mar 22Shouting 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
1997Mar 22The show “Sunset Boulevard” closed at Minskoff in NYC after 977 performances.
1998Mar 22President Clinton departed Washington for an historic 12-day tour of Africa.
1999Mar 22The Clinton administration announced new food deals for North Korea to total $60 million.
2000Mar 22The 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.
2001Mar 22Pres. Bush met with Chinese Deputy Premier Qian Qichen and said the US would support Taiwan’s military needs.
2002Mar 22The 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.
2003Mar 22Many 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.
2004Mar 22Afghan 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.
2005Mar 22The US Federal Reserve raised its fed funds rate a quarter point to 2.75%.
2006Mar 22The 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.
2007Mar 22France 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.
2008Mar 22In Bangladesh an emergency official said a tropical storm has killed at least five people. The storm also leveled around 3,000 huts.
2009Mar 22Frank 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.
2010Mar 22British Airways cabin crew held a 3rd day of strike action, prolonging travel misery for thousands. A business group warned the action threatens Britain’s global reputation.
2011Mar 22A German court jailed Detlef Spies, a former lorry driver, for 14 and a half years for sexually abusing his daughter, stepson and stepdaughter, with whom he fathered eight children. Spies was arrested on August 10, 2010.
2012Mar 22Australia police captured Malcolm Naden (38) just after midnight at a remote house near the town of Gloucester. The former slaughterhouse worker has been charged with the 2005 strangling death of a cousin and other violent crime.
2013Mar 22The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it will close 149 air traffic control towers at small airports across the country beginning on April 7 as it copes with automatic federal spending cuts.
2014Mar 22The US Navy handed over to Libyan authorities the M/T Morning Glory oil tanker it intercepted after the vessel took to sea with crude illegally loaded at a rebel-held port.
Source: Timelines of History 

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