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Old 03-24-2017, 01:12 PM   #643
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March 22

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

1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.

1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

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 with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.

1894 – The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

1943 – World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.

1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. [...the fuck?]

1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.

1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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 Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.

1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.

2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.

2017 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.

Births

1814 – Thomas Crawford, 1817 – Braxton Bragg, 1884 – Arthur H. Vandenberg, 1887 – Chico Marx, 1908 – Louis L'Amour, 1912 – Karl Malden, 1920 – James Brown, 1920 – Werner Klemperer, 1923 – Marcel Marceau, 1924 – Al Neuharth, 1930 – Pat Robertson, 1931 – William Shatner, 1934 – Orrin Hatch, 1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, 1936 – Roger Whittaker, 1940 – Haing S. Ngor, 1941 – Bruno Ganz, 1942 – Dick Poundsnicker, 1943 – George Benson, 1947 – James Patterson, 1948 – Wolf Blitzer, 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1952 – Bob Costas, 1955 – Lena Olin, 1955 – Pete Sessions, 1959 – Matthew Modine, 1971 – Keegan-Michael Key, 1972 – Elvis Stojko, 1975 – Cole Hauser, 1976 – Reese Witherspoon, 1989 – J. J. Watt

Deaths

1820 – Stephen Decatur, 1978 – Karl Wallenda, 1994 – Dan Hartman, 1994 – Walter Lantz, 1999 – David Strickland, 2001 – William Hanna, 2005 – Rod Price, 2016 – Rob Ford
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