About March 22

March 22, 2024 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.

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Aries is the sun 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.

What Happened On March 22

  • 238 –
    Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
  • 1622 –
    Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.
  • 1630 –
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
  • 1638 –
    Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
  • 1809 –
    Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
  • 1849 –
    The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
  • 1871 –
    In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
  • 1873 –
    A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
  • 1894 –
    The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • 1906 –
    First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
  • 1920 –
    Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
  • 1943 –
    World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
  • 1954 –
    Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
  • 1972 –
    The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
  • 1978 –
    Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 1982 –
    NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
  • 1989 –
    Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
  • 1997 –
    The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
  • 2004 –
    Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
  • 2006 –
    ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.

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