About March 22
March 22, 2025 is the 81st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 332 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 22
- 1621 –The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
- 1622 –Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.
- 1638 –Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
- 1739 –Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
- 1784 –The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
- 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.
- 1906 –First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
- 1923 –The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- 1942 –World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy’s Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
- 1945 –The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1960 –Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
- 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.
- 1984 –Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
- 1989 –Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
- 1995 –Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
- 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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