Today in History (22 March 2008)

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Events

• 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
• 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.
• 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
• 1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
• 1765 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
• 1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
• 1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
• 1829 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
• 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.
• 1888 - The Football League is formed.
• 1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
• 1895 - First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
• 1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
• 1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
• 1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
• 1941 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
• 1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Britain's Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
• 1943 - World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
• 1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
• 1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• 1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
• 1978 - Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1979 - Margaret Thatcher puts down an early day motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan.
• 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 in one of the most gruesome sports injuries of all time.
• 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 Valeriy Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
• 1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
• 1997 - The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth.
• 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
• 2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
• 2006 - BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
• 2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

Births

1959 - Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive
1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor
1965 - John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1965 - Emma Wray, English actress
1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian politician
1966 - Song Kwang Sik, Korean singer
1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
1968 - Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician (d. 1993)
1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer
1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
1972 - Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
1972 - Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1972 - Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
1973 - Beverley Knight, English singer
1973 - Joe Nedney, American football player
1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress
1975 - Jiří Novák, Czech tennis player
1976 - Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1977 - Joey Porter, American football player
1978 - Tom Poti, professional hockey player
1979 - Aaron North, American musician
1979 - Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
1980 - Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)
1980 - Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer
1981 - Victoria Lanz, Venezuelan porn star
1981 - MIMS, American rapper
1982 - Pete Bennett, British musician and winner of Big Brother 2006
1988 - Tania Raymonde, American actress
1992 - Luke Freeman, English footballer

Deaths
1974 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b.1939)
1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
1978 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 - Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
1986 - Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)
1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
1991 - Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1991 - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1991 - Gloria Holden, American film actress (b. 1908)
1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1996 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
2007 - Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)

 

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I find this one interesting: 1981 - Victoria Lanz, Venezuelan porn star