Today in History - March 22
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Easter is the Sunday after the
Paschal full moon, which may occur any time from Mar 21 through Apr
18.
Thus the date for Easter may be any time from March 22 to April 25
inclusive. The date of the Paschal full moon is determined from
tables
and it may differ from the date of the actual full moon by as much
as 2
days.
(SFC, 12/27/04, p.C10)
1387
Mar 22, Jogaila gave Vilnius the rights of
Magdeburg. Vilnius became the 1st self-governed Lithuanian city.
(LHC, 3/22/03)
1471 Mar 22, George van
Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), died.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1556 Mar 22, Cardinal Reginald
Pole became archbishop of Canterbury.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1599 Mar 22, Sir Anthony Van
Dyck, Flemish artist, was born. He gave his name to the Vandyke
beard. [See Feb 22]
(AP, 3/22/99)
1622 Mar 22, The Powhattan
Confederacy massacred 347-350 colonists in Virginia, a quarter of
the population. On Good Friday over 300 colonists in and around
Jamestown, Virginia, were massacred by the Powhatan Indians. The
massacre was led by the Powhatan chief Opechancanough and began a
costly 22-year war against the English. Opechancanough hoped that
killing one quarter of Virginia’s colonists would put an end to the
European threat. The result of the massacre was just the opposite,
however, as English survivors regrouped and pushed the Powhattans
far into the interior. Opechancanough launched his final campaign in
1644, when he was nearly 100 years old and almost totally blind. He
was then captured and executed.
(WSJ, 10/19/98, p.A24)(HNPD, 10/23/98)(AP,
3/22/99)
1630 Mar 22, First legislation
prohibiting gambling was enacted in Boston.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1638 Mar 22, Religious
dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1659 Mar 22, The Warsaw
parliament decided to issue metal currency, shillings, for Lithuania
and Poland.
(LHC, 3/22/03)
1664 Mar 22, Charles II gave
large tracks of land from west of the Connecticut River to the east
of Delaware Bay in North America to his brother James, the Duke of
York and Albany. The entire Hudson Valley and New Amsterdam was
given to James.
(AP, 3/22/99)(ON, 4/00, p.2)
1685 Mar 22, Composer Johann
Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. [see Mar 21]
(CFA, '96,Vol 179, p.42)(AP, 3/21/97)
1719 Mar 22, Frederick William
abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1752 Mar 22, Johann Georg
Joseph Spangler, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1758 Mar 22, Jonathan Edwards
(b.1703), US colonial theologian, philosopher (Great Awakening,
Original Sin), died in New Jersey following an inoculation for
smallpox.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards)
1765 Mar 22, Britain enacted
the Stamp Act to raise money from the American Colonies. This was
the first direct British tax on the colonists. The Act was repealed
the following year. The tax covered just about everything produced
by the American colonists and began the decade of crisis that led to
the American Revolution. The Stamp Act taxed the legal documents of
the American colonists and infuriated John Adams.
(AP, 3/22/97)(HN, 3/22/97)(A&IP, p.13,18)
1775 Mar 22, British statesman
Edmund Burke made a speech in the House of Commons, urging the
government to adopt a policy of reconciliation with America.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1778 Mar 22, Captain Cook
sighted Cape Flattery in Washington state.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1786 Mar 22, Joachim Lelevelis
was born in Warsaw. He became a renowned historian and Prof. at
Vilnius Univ. He died May 29, 1861 in Paris.
(LHC, 3/22/03)
1790 Mar 22, Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826) became the first US Secretary of State. As Secretary of
State, he served on the first Board of Arts, the body that reviewed
patent applications and granted patents. Jefferson was one of a
triumvirate that served as both America’s first patent commissioner
and first patent examiner.
(HN,
3/22/97)(www.archipelago.org/vol10-34/matsuura.htm)
1794 Mar 22, Congress passed
laws prohibiting slave trade with foreign countries, although
slavery remained legal in the United States. Congress banned US
vessels from supplying slaves to other countries.
(HN, 3/22/01)(MC, 3/22/02)
1795 Mar 22, A Lithuanian
delegation under L. Tiskevicius went to Jekaterina II in Petersburg
and declared that Lithuania’s union with Poland was ended.
(Voruta #27-28, Jul 1996, p.5)
1797 Mar 22, Kaiser Wilhelm I,
German Emperor (1871-88), was born.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1817 Mar 22, Braxton Bragg
(d.1876), Gen (Confederate Army), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1820 Mar 22, The Decatur-Barron
Duel. U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur (b.1779) was killed in a duel
with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C.
(HFA, ‘96, p.26)(AP, 3/22/97)
1822 Mar 22, Gioacchino Rossini
married Isabella Colbran in Bologna.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1834 Mar 22, Horace Greeley
published “New Yorker,” a weekly literary and news magazine and
forerunner of Harold Ross' more successful “The New Yorker.”
(HN, 3/22/01)
1841 Mar 22, Cornstarch was
patented by Orlando Jones.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1842 Mar 22, Mykola
Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1846 Mar 22, Randolph
Caldecott, illustrator, was born.
(HN, 3/22/01)
1865 Mar 22, Theophile Ysaye,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1865 Mar 22, Raid at Wilson's:
Chickasaw, AL, to Macon, GA.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1868 Mar 22, Robert A.
Millikan, US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1871 Mar 22, William Holden of
NC became the 1st US governor removed by impeachment.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1872 Mar 22, Illinois became
1st state to require sexual equality in employment.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1873 Mar 22, Slavery was
abolished in Puerto Rico.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1874 Mar 22, Young Men's Hebrew
Association was organized in NYC.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1882 Mar 22, US Congress
outlawed polygamy. The Edmunds-Tucker Act was adopted by the US to
suppress polygamy in the territories. [see Morrill Act 1862]
President Chester Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.
(SFEM, 6/28/98, p.39)(AP, 3/22/08)
1887 Mar 22, Chico Marx,
[Leonard Martin], comedian (Marx Brothers), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1894 Mar 22, Hockey's first
Stanley Cup championship game was played; the home team Montreal
Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals, 3-1.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1895 Mar 22, Auguste and Louis
Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris;
this is generally regarded as the first-ever public display of a
movie projected onto a screen. [see Dec 28]
(AP, 3/22/97)
1901 Mar 22, Japan proclaimed
that it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1902 Mar 22, Great Britain and
Persia agreed to link Europe and India by telegraph.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1903 Mar 22, Niagara Falls ran
out of water because of a drought. [see Feb 22]
(MC, 3/22/02)
1904 Mar 22, The first color
photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1905 Mar 22, Ruth Page, US
choreographer, ballet leader (Diaghilev, Pygmalion), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1907 Mar 22, James Gavin, U.S.
Army General, was born. He commanded the 82nd Airborne Division on
D-Day, Operation Market-Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/99)
1907 Mar 22, Russians troops
completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing
Japanese forces.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/99)
1908 Mar 22, Louis L’Amour
(d.1998), American author, was born in Jamestown, North Dakota. He
wrote 116 western novels.
(HN, 3/22/97)(USAT, 6/10/98, p.1D)(MC, 3/22/02)
1912 Mar 22, Karl Malden
(d.2009), later film and TV star, was born as Mladen Sekulovich in
Chicago.
(AP, 7/2/09)(SFC, 7/1/09, p.A8)
1913 Mar 22, Karl Malden, actor
(Mike-Streets of SF, American Express), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1913 Mar 22, Martha Modl,
German singer, soprano (Wagner), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1915 Mar 22, A German Zeppelin
made a night raid on Paris railway stations.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1917 Mar 22, The U.S. became
the first to recognize the Kerensky Government in Russia.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1917 Mar 22, In Brazil Caixa
Economica de Sao Paulo first opened its doors. In 2008 the bank was
bought by Banco do Brazil.
(http://tinyurl.com/2wkhujw)(Econ, 5/15/10, SR
p.11)
1918 Mar 22, Ukrainian mobs
massacred the Jews of Seredino Buda.
(www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/205/612)
1919 Mar 22, The first
international airline service was inaugurated on a weekly schedule
between Paris and Brussels.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1922 Mar 22, A British court
sentenced Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison. [see Mar 18]
(MC, 3/22/02)
1923 Mar 22, Marcel Marceau,
French mime, was born. "I do not get my ideas from people on the
street. If you look at faces on the street, what do you see?
Nothing. Just boredom." He devised over 100 pantomimes, including
The Creation of the World.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/99)
1927 Mar 22, Federico Garcia
Lorca's "El Maleficio," premiered in Madrid.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1928 Mar 22, Dmitri Antonovitch
Volkogonov, soldier, historian, was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1928 Mar 22, Noel Coward's
musical "This Year of Grace," premiered in London.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1928 Mar 22, Peasants in the
Soviet Union protested food shortages there.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1929 Mar 22, A US Coast Guard
vessel sank a Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1930 Mar 22, Stephen Sondheim,
American composer and lyricist (A Little Night Music, Passion), was
born.
(HN, 3/22/01)
1933 Mar 22, During
Prohibition, President Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine &
beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal. [see Feb 20, Apr 7,
Dec 5]
(AP, 3/22/97)(HN, 3/22/97)
1934 Mar 22, Philippine
independence was granted by the US and was guaranteed to begin in
1945.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)
1934 Mar 22, Orrin Hatch, U.S.
senator from Utah, was born.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1935 Mar 22, Michael Emmet
Walsh, actor (Wildcats, War Party), was born in Ogdensburg, NY.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1935 Mar 22, Blood tests were
authorized as evidence in court cases in NY.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1935 Mar 22, Persia was renamed
Iran.
(SFC,11/19/97, Z1 p.7)(HN, 3/22/97)
1935 Mar 22, Russia sold the
Chinese Eastern Railway to Japan.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1936 Mar 22, May Britt, actress
(Young Lions), wife of Sammy Davis Jr., was born in Sweden.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1936 Mar 22, Roger Whittaker,
country singer (Durham Town), was born in Nairobi, Kenya.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1936 Mar 22, In Alameda, Ca.,
Chief Engineer George W. Alberts was found murdered aboard the
freighter S.S. Point Lobos. District Attorney Earl Warren prosecuted
the case and 4 defendants were convicted and sentenced to prison.
(SFEM, 6/1/97, p.16-21)
1938 Mar 22, Glen Campbell,
singer (By the Time I get to Phoenix, Galveston), was born.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1939 Mar 22, Germany marched
into Klaipeda (Memel), Lithuania. The Lithuanian warship Prezidentas
Smetona was left without a harbor. The ship soon settled at Latvia’s
port of Liepaja. In December Ltn. P. Labanauskas was named captain.
In 1940 Soviet occupiers called for the ship to raise the Soviet
flag, but Captain Labanauskas sailed the ship out of Soviet
territory. The ship was later handed over to the Soviet Baltic
fleet. On Jan 11, 1945, it hit a mine and sank off the coast of
Finland.
(Voruta #27-28, Jul 1996,
p.2)(http://tinyurl.com/cs545k)
1941 Mar 22, The Grand Coulee
Dam in Washington state went into operation.
(AP, 3/22/01)
1942 Mar 22, There was a heavy
German assault on Malta (3rd day).
(MC, 3/22/02)
1943 Mar 22, SS police chief
Rauter threatened to kill half Jewish children.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1944 Mar 22, Over 600 8th Air
Force bombers attacked Berlin.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1945 Mar 22, The Arab League
was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. Saudi
Arabia became a founding member of the UN and the Arab League.
(AP, 3/22/97)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1945 Mar 22, The US 3rd Army
crossed the Rhine at Nierstein.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1946 Mar 22, First U.S. built
rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere reached a 50-mile height.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1946 Mar 22, The British
mandate in Transjordan came to an end. Britain signed a treaty
granting independence to Jordan.
(AP, 3/22/97)(HN, 3/22/97)
1948 Mar 22, Andrew Lloyd
Webber, Broadway composer, was born. His works include "Phantom of
the Opera" and "Cats."
(AP, 3/22/99)(HN, 3/22/97)
1948 Mar 22, The U.S. announced
a land reform plan for Korea.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1952 Mar 22, Bob Costas,
sportscaster, talk show host (Later), was born in Queens, NY.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1953 Mar 22, UC Pres. Robert
Gordon Sproul addressed a Charter Day banquet and contended that
faculty members who support the Communist Party do not deserve
membership in a university faculty.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.E3)
1954 Mar 22, The 1st shopping
mall opened in Southfield, Mich.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1954 Mar 22, The London gold
market reopened for the first time since 1939.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1955 Mar 22, Linda Stout became
the first person at Mayo Clinic, and the second person in the world,
to have open-heart surgery with the aid of a heart-lung bypass
machine.
(www.mayoclinic.org/history/)
1956 Mar 22, Musical "Mr.
Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr. premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1957 Mar 22, An earthquake,
centered in Daly City, Ca., hit the SF Bay Area and caused extensive
damage to Mary’s Help Hospital.
(Ind, 8/11/01, 5A)(CW, Winter 04, p.45)(DCFD,
Centennial, 2007)
1958 Mar 22, Movie producer
Mike Todd (56) and three other people were killed in the crash of
Todd's private plane near Grants, N.M.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1960 Mar 22, The 1st patent for
lasers was granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes. Schawlow
and Townes developed their laser, light amplification by stimulated
emission of radiation, while working at Bell labs in 1958.
(www1.bell-labs.com/history/laser/)
(www.ipmall.info/about/user11.asp)
1963 Mar 22, British Minister
of War John Profumo denied having sex with Christine Keeler. The
Profumo call girl scandal almost toppled the government. Profumo, a
leading British Conservative and minister for war, was discovered to
have been involved with Keeler, a call girl who was also dealing
with a Soviet attaché. Valerie Hobson (d.1998 at 81), his
actress wife, stood by him after the scandal. A 1995 Masterpiece
Theater TV play was based on these events.
(TMC, 1994, p.1963)(WSJ, 12/28/95, p. A-5)(SFEC,
11/15/98, p.D5)(MC, 3/22/02)
1965 Mar 22, US confirmed its
troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1968 Mar 22, Gen'l. William
Westmoreland (1914-2005) was relieved of his duties in the wake of
the Tet disaster. Troop strength under Westmoreland had reached over
500,000 and he wanted more. He was succeeded by Gen'l. Creighton
Abrams. Abrams reversed Westmoreland's strategy. He ended major
"search and destroy" missions and focused on protecting population
centers. William Colby took charge of the pacification campaign.
President Lyndon B. Johnson named Gen. William C. Westmoreland to be
the Army's new Chief of Staff.
(HN, 3/22/97)(WSJ, 6/23/99, p.A24)(Econ, 7/30/05,
p.79)(AP, 3/22/08)
1968 Mar 22, In southern
Thailand Tuanku Biyo Kodoniyo set up the Pattani United Liberation
Organization (PULO). It called for an independent Islamic country.
(www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/pulo.htm)
1972 Mar 22, The US Congress
passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution and sent it to
the states for ratification. The amendment died in 1982 when it fell
three states short of the 38, two-thirds, needed for approval.
(AP, 3/22/97)(HN,
3/22/97)(www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html)
1972 Mar 22, The Supreme Court
Eisenstadt vs. Baird decision struck down a law that banned the
distribution of birth control devices to unmarried people.
(SFC, 7/25/97,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenstadt_v._Baird)
1974 Mar 22, The Viet Cong
proposed a new truce with the United States and South Vietnam, which
includes general elections.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1975 Mar 22, In Alabama a fire
at the Browns Ferry Unit 1 nuclear power plant caused $10 million in
damage and knocked the reactor out of service for over a year. A
worker checking for air leaks with a candle ignited insulation near
the control room. The reactor was mothballed in 1985. It was
scheduled to reopen in 2007 following a 5 year, $1.8 billion
restoration.
(SFC, 5/5/07, p.A6)(http://tinyurl.com/33l4hc)
1977 Mar 22, President Carter
proposed the abolition of the Electoral College.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1977 Mar 22, Indira Gandhi
revoked emergency rule and resigned as PM of India.
(http://tinyurl.com/32tg72)
1978 Mar 22, Karl Wallenda, the
73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell
to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two
hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1979 Mar 22, The opera "Miss
Havisham’s Fire" by Dominick Argento premiered at the NYC Opera with
two 80-minute acts. It was based on a character in the 1861 novel
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens.
(WSJ, 7/2/01,
p.A12)(www.historicopera.com/listing_operas.htm)
1979 Mar 22, Israeli parliament
approved a peace treaty with Egypt.
(www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/begin_closing.html)
1981 Mar 22, Postage rates went
from 15 cents an ounce to 18 cents an ounce.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1982 Mar 22, The US submarine
Jacksonville collided with a Turkish freighter near Virginia.
(http://navysite.de/ssn/ssn699.htm)
1986 Mar 22, World financier
Michele Sindona died two days after ingesting cyanide in his Italian
prison cell in what authorities later ruled a suicide.
(AP, 3/22/06)
1987 Mar 22, A garbage barge,
carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, N.Y., on a six-month
journey in search of a place to unload. The barge was turned away by
several states and three countries until space was found back in
Islip.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1988 Mar 22, Both houses of
Congress overrode President Reagan's veto of a sweeping civil rights
bill.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1988 Mar 22, In Angola the
battle of Cuito Cuanavale changed the region's political landscape,
accelerating the independence of Namibia and the fall of apartheid
in South Africa. While the Cuban and Angolan forces claimed victory,
South Africa claimed it lost only 31 soldiers against 4,785 who fell
on the other side.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1988 Mar 22, Iraqi jets dropped
a variety of chemical weapons on the Kurdish town of Sewsenan, where
militiamen had fled following attacks on Halabja.
(SFC, 8/21/06, p.A6)
1989 Mar 22, US Supreme Court
upheld 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate.
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=489&invol=688)
1989 Mar 22, National Football
League Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced plans to retire.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1989 Mar 22, Fawn Hall, Oliver
North's former secretary, began two days of testimony at North's
Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1989 Mar 22, Ann Harrison (15)
was abducted as she waited for a school bus in front of her home in
Raytown, Missouri. African-Americans Roderick Nunley and Michael
Taylor forced her into a stolen car, raped and stabbed her to death.
They left her body in the boot of the car. Taylor and Nunley were
convicted and sentenced to death. In 2006 their execution was
postponed pending a decision on whether lethal injection constitutes
cruel and unusual punishment.
(Econ, 7/22/06,
p.36)(http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=18038)
1990 Mar 22, A jury in
Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood
innocent of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez
oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent
discharge of oil.
(HN, 3/22/97)(AP, 3/22/00)
1991 Mar 22, Law enforcement
officers raided fraternities at Univ. of Virginia seizing drugs.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1991-3/1991-03-22-ABC-9.html)
1991 Mar 22, High school
instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover
into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of
murder-conspiracy.
(AP, 3/22/01)
1991 Mar 22, A US warplane shot
down a second Iraqi jet fighter that had violated the cease-fire
ending the Persian Gulf War.
(AP, 3/22/01)
1992 Mar 22, The show
"Conversations with My Father" opened at the Royale Theatre in NYC
for 462 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4669)
1992 Mar 22, President Bush and
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrapped up a weekend of informal talks
by reiterating their resolve to break a deadlock on global trade
talks.
(AP, 3/22/02)
1992 Mar 22, Twenty-seven
people were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed on takeoff from New
York's La Guardia Airport; 24 people survived.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1992 Mar 22, France's governing
Socialist Party was rebuffed in regional elections.
(AP, 3/22/02)
1993 Mar 22, Microsoft began
shipping its Encarta encyclopedia on CD-ROM. It had licensed content
from Funk & Wagnalls after being rebuffed by Britannica.
(Wired, 12/98, p.198)(WSJ, 3/18/09, p.A13)
1993 Mar 22, Intel introduced
its Pentium processor (80586): 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS.
(www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickreffam.htm#pentium)
1993 Mar 22, The launch of the
space shuttle Columbia was scrubbed with three seconds left in the
countdown.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1993 Mar 22, Cleveland Indians
pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews were killed when the boat they
were riding in slammed into a Florida pier; pitcher Bob Ojeda was
seriously injured.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1993 Mar 22, The 1st World
Water Day. On Dec 22, 1992, the UN General Assembly adopted
resolution A/RES/47/193 by which 22 March of each year was declared
World Day for Water, to be observed starting in 1993.
(www.unesco.org/water/water_celebrations/index.shtml)
1994 Mar 22, The US Federal
Reserve for fear of inflation announced it was raising short-term
interest rates from 3.25 to 3.5%, the second such boost of the year.
By Nov the 10-year bond rate rose to 8% from about 5.4% the previous
September.
(AP, 3/22/99)(SSFC, 7/6/03, p.I1)
1994 Mar 22, Walter Lantz,
"Woody Woodpecker" creator, died in Burbank, Calif., at age 93.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1995 Mar 22, Shouting 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.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1995 Mar 22, Convicted Long
Island Rail Road gunman Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in
prison for killing six people.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1996 Mar 22, Shannon Lucid,
astronaut, went into space on the shuttle Atlantis. She transferred
to the Russian Mir space station and broke the US space endurance
record of 115 days on 7/15/96.
(SFC, 7/13/96, p.A7)(AP, 3/22/97)
1997 Mar 22, The show "Sunset
Boulevard" closed at Minskoff in NYC after 977 performances.
(http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=4275)
1997 Mar 22, In Lausanne,
Switz., Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the
youngest women's world figure skating champion.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1997 Mar 22, The Hale-Bopp
comet made its closest approach to Earth at 122 million miles. On
Apr 1 it will make its closest approach to the sun, perihelion, at
some 85 miles distance.
(SFC, 3/28/97, p.A12)
1997 Mar 22, In Canada five
Solar Temple cult members died in an apparent mass suicide in
Quebec. Devotees believed that suicide transports them to a new life
in a place called Sirius.
(WSJ, 3/24/97, p.A1)(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A19)
1997 Mar 22, In France Etienne
Bacrat, “the Mozart of Chess,” became a grand master at the age of
14.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, p.A13)
1997 Mar 22, A day after a
suicide bomber killed three women in Tel Aviv, Israeli troops
clashed with hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1997 Mar 22, In Tanzania the
worst drought in 40 years was reported.
(SFC, 3/22/97, p.A4)
1998 Mar 22, President Clinton
departed Washington for an historic 12-day tour of Africa.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1998 Mar 22, A deeply divided
United Auto Workers union approved a new contract with Caterpillar
Inc., ending a 6 1/2-year contract battle.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1998 Mar 22, In Miles Township,
Pa., 11 students were killed in a cabin fire while on a camping
trip.
(SFC, 3/23/98, p.A2)(AP, 3/22/99)
1998 Mar 22, Kosovo Albanians
elected Ibrahim Rugova as president. Serb officials pronounced the
elections meaningless.
(SFC, 3/23/98, p.A9)
1998 Mar 22, In Moldova
elections were held and the Communist party received about 30% of
the vote. Political parties scrambled to form a coalition to keep
the Communists out of power.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.A14)
1998 Mar 22, A Philippine
Airbus 320 jetliner overshot its runway on landing and hit a row of
houses and a disco in Bacolod. 3 people were killed and a hundred
injured.
(WSJ, 3/23/98, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, The Clinton
administration announced new food deals for North Korea to total $60
million.
(WSJ, 3/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, Acting as his own
lawyer, Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial on murder charges for the
first time, telling a jury in Pontiac, Mich., he was merely carrying
out his professional duty in a videotaped assisted death shown on
"60 Minutes." Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder.
(AP, 3/22/00)
1999 Mar 22, A woman, held as a
sex hostage, escaped from David Ray and Cindy Hendy near Elephant
Butte Lake, NM. Ray and Hendy were arrested on charges of kidnapping
and torture and then other reports emerged that 4-6 other victims
had been mutilated and dumped into the lake.
(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A6)
1999 Mar 22, The Volantor, a
flying car, was described. It was designed by Paul Moller of Davis,
Ca., and estimated to have range of 900 miles.
(SFC, 3/22/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 22, In Congo Mai Mai
warriors hired by Rwanda were reported to have killed 100 people.
Rwanda denied the report.
(WSJ, 3/24/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, Serb attacks on
ethnic Albanians continued after envoy Richard Holbrooke failed to
convince Pres. Milosevic to stop.
(WSJ, 3/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 22, In Sierra Leone at
least 150 people drowned when an overloaded motorized canoe capsized
near Tasso.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A14)
2000 Mar 22, The 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.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.A3)
2000 Mar 22, The federal
government agreed to pay a record $508 million to settle a sex
discrimination lawsuit filed by some 1,100 women at the now-defunct
US Information Agency in 1977. Another $23 million was for back pay,
interest and retirement benefits. It was the largest-ever settlement
of a federal sex discrimination case.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.A1)(AP, 3/22/01)
2000 Mar 22, Four Florida
counties were declared agricultural disaster areas due to a
spreading citrus canker. Half the lime crop was already destroyed in
the southern part of the state.
(WSJ, 3/23/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 22, Gunmen ambushed
Arkady Gukasyan, the president of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian
enclave in Azerbaijan. 28 suspects were arrested.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.D2)
2000 Mar 22, In Nepal Girija
Prasad Koirala began his 3rd term as prime minister. He succeeded
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girija_Prasad_Koirala)
2000 Mar 22, In Bethlehem Pope
John Paul II affirmed support for a Palestinian homeland.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.A1)(AP, 3/22/01)
2000 Mar 22, In Nigeria a
pipeline fire killed 50 people siphoning off gas in Abia state.
(SFC, 3/23/00, p.D2)
2001 Mar 22, Pres. Bush met
with Chinese Deputy Premier Qian Qichen and said the US would
support Taiwan’s military needs.
(WSJ, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, In California
Jason Hoffman (18) opened fire at Granite Hills High School in El
Cajon, San Diego County. 10 people were injured. Hoffman reached a
plea agreement and faced at least 27 years in prison. Hoffman hanged
himself and was found dead in his cell Oct 29.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/24/01, p.A3)(SFC,
9/14/01, p.A28)(SFC, 10/30/01, p.E10)
2001 Mar 22, William Hanna
(b.1910), animation pioneer, died in Los Angeles. Cartoon characters
that he helped create included Fred Flintstone, Quick Draw McGraw,
Yogi Bear, Papa Smurf, as well as Tom and Jerry.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D7)(AP, 3/22/02)(NW, 12/31/01,
p.107)
2001 Mar 22, Yevgeny
Plushchenko captured the World Figure Skating Championships crown in
Vancouver, British Columbia.
(AP, 3/22/02)
2001 Mar 22, Two Albanians were
killed by Macedonian police at a checkpoint when they appeared to
pull grenades. The EU urged Macedonia to show restraint and
intensify discussions with Albanian militants.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D4)
2001 Mar 22, Pedro Verona
Rodrigues Pires began ruling as the President of Cape Verde
and continued to September 2011. He was Prime Minister from 1975 to
1991.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Pires)
2001 Mar 22, In Ireland a case
of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in County Louth, on the
border with Northern Ireland. 40,000 cattle were destroyed.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D5)(WSJ, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, In Mexico the
Chamber of Deputies voted to allow Zapatista leaders to speak before
an informal session of Congress.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D2)
2001 Mar 22, Russia threatened
to expel 50 American personnel in response to US expulsions of
Russian intelligence agents.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, The Russian Duma
was expected to pass a bill to allow the storage of spent nuclear
fuel for projected earnings of some $20 billion.
(WSJ, 3/22/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 22, Sabiha Gokcen,
Turkey's 1st woman pilot and the adopted daughter of Ataturk, died.
Armenians held that she was Armenian by birth.
(Econ, 3/27/04, p.52)
2001 Mar 22, UN Sec.-Gen. Kofi
Annan said that he agreed to seek a 2nd five-year term.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D5)
2002 Mar 22, The 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.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.B5)(WSJ, 4/1/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 22, Pres. Bush
addressed the UN meeting in Monterey, Mexico, and called on wealthy
nations to link foreign aid to economic reform. Bush had already
proposed an extra $10 billion over 3 years starting in 2004. US aid
was about .01% of GDP as compared to 1% of GDP for Denmark.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A1)(SSFC, 3/24/02, p.D3)
2002 Mar 22, The US State Dept.
ordered all non-essential Embassy and Consulate personnel in
Pakistan to return home.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A13)
2002 Mar 22, A US postal panel
approved a 3 cent increase in first-class stamps to 37 cents around
Jun 30.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 22, A Portland,
Oregon, jury ordered Philip Morris to pay $150 million in
punitive damages for falsely representing low-tar cigarettes as
healthier than regular cigarettes.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A4)
2002 Mar 22, Thomas Kelly (72),
the Grumman engineer who had overseen the building of the 1969 lunar
module, died.
(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A24)
2002 Mar 22, The Argentine peso
closed down 18% to 3.1 to the dollar. IMF loans appeared distant.
(WSJ, 3/25/02, p.A12)
2002 Mar 22, Israelis and
Palestinians resumed cease-fire negotiations despite another suicide
bombing outside Jenin. Only the bomber was killed.
(SFC, 3/23/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 22, It was reported
that the Taiwan government had seized copies of Next magazine that
included details of a secret $100 million fund used by former pres.
Lee Teng-hui and current officials for diplomatic missions and
policy initiatives. Some 220,000 copies did get distributed.
(SFC, 3/22/02, p.A10)(SFC, 3/29/02, p.A5)
2003 Mar 22, Many 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.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2003 Mar 22, U.S. forces
reported seizing a large weapons cache in Afghanistan.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2003 Mar 22, Scientists believe
they have found the virus responsible for the mystery SARS virus and
announced a test to diagnose it.
(AP, 3/23/03)
2003 Mar 22, In the 4th day of
Operation Iraqi Freedom intermittent explosions were heard
throughout the day in Baghdad and by late afternoon at least 12 huge
columns of smoke could be seen rising from all along the southern
horizon of the city. US and British forces reached half way to
Baghdad and British forces were left surrounding Basra.
(AP, 3/22/03)(SSFC, 3/23/03, p.W1)
2003 Mar 22, A 4-man ITN TV
crew drove into a war zone near Az Zubayr, Iraq, and reporter Terry
Lloyd (50) was killed. 2 men went missing and one escaped.
(WSJ, 5/2/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 22, Two British Royal
Navy helicopters collided over the Persian Gulf, killing all 7 on
board including a US Navy officer.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, Burundi's
hard-line Hutu rebel group expressed satisfaction with its first
round of peace talks in Switzerland.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, Dozens of Chechen
rebels surrendered their weapons in a ceremony apparently designed
to promote harmony on the eve of a constitutional referendum.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, A gas explosion
killed 28 people and trapped 45 others in a coal mine in northern
China.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, In eastern Congo
an overloaded ferry traveling between rebel-held ports sank in Lake
Tanganyika, killing 111 people. It was sailing in Burundian waters
to avoid rival tribal fighters.
(AP, 3/24/03)
2003 Mar 22, Thousands of angry
protesters from Japan to Greece marched Saturday against the US-led
war in Iraq.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2003 Mar 22, Sgt. Hasan Akbar,
a US soldier, threw grenades into 3 tents at Camp Pennsylvania, a
101st Airborne command center in Kuwait, killing one fellow
serviceman and wounding 13. In 2005 Akbar was convicted of
premeditated and attempted murder. On April 28, 2005, Akbar was
sentenced to death.
(AP, 3/23/03)(SFC, 4/22/05, p.A13)(SFC, 4/29/05,
p.A10)
2003 Mar 22, In Nigeria ethnic
militants threatened to blow up 11 multinational oil installations
they claimed to have captured in retaliation for military raids.
(AP, 3/22/03)
2004 Mar 22, Terry Nichols went
on trial for his life in the Oklahoma City bombing. Nichols was
already serving a life sentence for his conviction on federal
charges. On May 26 he was found guilty of 161 state murder charges,
but was again spared the death penalty when the jury couldn't agree
on his sentence.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2004 Mar 22, Afghan 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.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2004 Mar 22, A car bomb blew up
near a U.S. Air Force base north of Baghdad, killing two Iraqi
civilians and wounding 25 others. The U.S. military said a bomb
killed a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter in Baghdad.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2004 Mar 22, The Finnish
Foreign Ministry said two Finnish businessmen were shot and killed
in Baghdad.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2004 Mar 22, Israel killed
Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and 7 other Hamas members in a helicopter
missile strike outside a Gaza City mosque, prompting threats of
unprecedented revenge by thousands of Palestinian. Sheik Ahmed
Yassin, a quadriplegic preacher, founded the Islamic militant group
Hamas in 1987 and presided over its rise to a violent, radical
alternative to Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.
(AP, 3/22/04)(USAT, 3/23/04, p.1A)
2004 Mar 22, In Malaysia
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was sworn in as prime minister, a day after
scoring a landslide election victory that handed the fundamentalist
Islamic opposition its worst defeat in more than a decade. The
national Front Coalition won 199 out of 219 seats in parliament.
(AP, 3/22/04)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.53)
2004 Mar 22, Oil giant Royal
Dutch/Shell said it plans to streamline its operations in Nigeria.
An estimated 1,500 people, or about 30 percent of its work force of
about 5,000, will be laid off.
(AP, 3/22/04)
2004 Mar 22, In Pakistan
assailants launched two rocket attacks on government forces on the
edge of a bloody offensive against al-Qaeda militants and 15
soldiers were killed near Sarwakai. A mile-long tunnel from a tribal
compound toward the Afghan border was discovered.
(AP, 3/23/04)(WSJ, 3/23/04, p.A1)(SFC, 4/2/04,
p.A11)
2005 Mar 22, World Water Day.
The UN General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/47/193 of 22
December 1992 by which 22 March of each year was declared World Day
for Water, to be observed starting in 1993.
(www.unesco.org/water/water_celebrations/index.shtml)
2005 Mar 22, The US Federal
Reserve raised its fed funds rate a quarter point to 2.75%.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.C1)
2005 Mar 22, A federal judge in
Florida refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding
tube, denying an emergency request from the brain-damaged woman's
parents.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Iowa enacted a law
requiring an ID check and signature before the sale of cold remedies
containing an ingredient for methamphetamine.
(WSJ, 3/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 22, Anna Ayala of Las
Vegas claimed that she bit into a piece of human finger while eating
chili at a Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, Ca. Ayala was arrested on
Apr 21 on suspicion of attempted grand theft. Police later reported
the finger came from an acquaintance of Ayala’s husband, who lost it
in an industrial accident. Ayala and her husband Jaime Placencia
pleaded guilty to all charges on Sep 9. In 2006 both were sentenced
to 9 years in prison and ordered top pay $21.2 million in
restitution to Wendy’s Int’l.
(SFC, 3/25/05, p.A1)(SFC, 5/14/05, p.A1)(SFC,
9/10/05, p.A1)(SFC, 1/19/06, p.B1)
2005 Mar 22, IBM unveiled new
anti-span technology called FairUCE. It used a giant database to
identify computers sending spam and returned e-mails from those
listed back to the sending machine.
(WSJ, 3/22/05, p.B1)
2005 Mar 22, Officials from the
ministry of health and the World Health Organization (WHO) said a
deadly haemorrhagic fever that has claimed the lives of 96 people,
mainly children, in Angola's northern Uige province has been
identified as the rare Marburg virus.
(www.meritcare.com/news/world/viewarticle.asp?id=18843)
2005 Mar 22, Astronomers
reported a faint heat glow from giant planets circling distant
stars.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 22, In Afghanistan US
warplanes killed five suspected Taliban or al-Qaida militants near
the Pakistani border after guerrillas launched an overnight rocket
and gun attack on American and Afghan military positions.
(AP, 3/23/05)
2005 Mar 22, In Afghanistan
US-led forces trying to capture a suspected Taliban militant got
into a firefight that left seven people dead, including two children
and a woman.
(AP, 3/24/05)
2005 Mar 22, French lawmakers
voted to dismantle the 35-hour workweek.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.A10)
2005 Mar 22, Gunmen in
Port-au-Prince opened fire on the house of Haiti's justice minister,
killing a police officer in a brazen attack that underscored the
country's shaky security climate.
(AP, 3/23/05)
2005 Mar 22, India said it has
reached a basic agreement with Japan on the joint development of
natural gas off the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
(AFP, 3/26/05)
2005 Mar 22, Militants targeted
a US patrol with a roadside bomb that killed four nearby civilians
in the northern city of Mosul. In Baghdad private citizens struck an
insurgent patrol carrying grenades and killed 3 in a gun battle.
(AP, 3/22/05)(SFC, 3/23/05, p.A3)
2005 Mar 22, Iraqi and US
forces killed 80 militants in a battle west of Tikrit.
(AP, 3/23/05)
2005 Mar 22, Israel completed
its handover of the West Bank town of Tulkarem to Palestinian
security control.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Kenzo Tange (91),
Japanese architect, died. His work included the stadiums for the
1964 Tokyo Olympics.
(SFC, 3/23/05, p.B7)
2005 Mar 22, A Jordanian
military court convicted three Iraqis of smuggling rockets and hand
grenades into the kingdom in connection with a plot to attack U.S.
and Israeli targets.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Kyrgyzstan
President Askar Akayev's spokesman said protests sweeping are part
of a "coup" designed by criminals. The government signaled it has no
intention of accepting election fraud charges that have fueled the
massive rallies.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Nigeria’s Pres.
Olusegun Obasanjo fired his education minister, Fabian Osuji,
accusing him of bribing lawmakers including the Senate leader
Adolphus Wabara and a string of other named senators of taking
bribes totaling $398,550.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, North Korea's
Premier Pak Pong Ju began a visit to China at a time of American
calls for Beijing to use its influence to prod the North back into
nuclear talks.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2005 Mar 22, Pakistan released
564 Indians, mostly fisherman, from its prisons in a goodwill
gesture toward neighboring India.
(AP, 3/22/05)
2006 Mar 22, The 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.
(SFC, 3/23/06, p.A9)
2006 Mar 22, In Tennessee,
Matthew Winkler (31), a minister at Selmer's Church of Christ, was
found dead in the parsonage after he missed an evening service and
church members went searching for him. On March 24 Tennessee
authorities said they would charge Mary Winkler, the minister's wife
with first-degree murder. In 2007 Mary Winkler was sentenced to 3
years in prison. She had testified that her husband abused her
physically and emotionally.
(AP, 3/24/06)(AP, 6/9/07)
2006 Mar 22, General Motors
Corp. and the auto parts supplier it once owned, Delphi Corp.,
announced deals with the United Auto Workers that would offer
buyouts to 13,000 hourly Delphi employees and up to 100,000 hourly
GM workers represented by the United Auto Workers.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, In Bolivia bombs
exploded inside two low-budget hotels in La Paz overnight, killing
two people and wounding seven. Triston Jay Amero (24), an American
from Placerville, Ca., and Alda Ribeiro (45), of Uruguay, were
arrested in connection with the bombings. Amero had earlier
described himself as “the Superman of Loosers.”
(AP, 3/22/06)(SFC, 3/24/06, p.B12)
2006 Mar 22, In Brazil the US
Embassy said agents from the US Department of Homeland Security will
soon be helping Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay combat money
laundering and terrorism financing.
(AP, 3/23/06)
2006 Mar 22, A ferry carrying
150 passengers sank off the coast of Cameroon, and 23 people were
rescued. The rest were feared dead. The ferry was bound for Gabon
from Nigeria with passengers from Burkina Faso, Nigeria and the
Ivory Coast.
(AP, 3/23/06)(SFC, 3/24/06, p.A12)
2006 Mar 22, In Canada a BC
Ferries sank in the middle of the night after hitting Gil Island
near the village of Hartley Bay, on its scheduled route down the
rugged British Columbia coast. 99 passengers and crew made it to
lifeboats, but 2 passengers failed to escape.
(Reuters, 3/12/08)
2006 Mar 22, In northern Chile
a tour bus swerved to avoid an approaching truck and tumbled 300
feet down a mountainside, killing 12 American tourists and injuring
two others.
(AP, 3/23/06)
2006 Mar 22, An Ethiopian court
dropped charges of treason, attempted genocide and other crimes
against 18 people, including five Voice of America journalists,
accused of attempting to overthrow the government.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, The EU approved a
first-ever joint blacklist of nearly 100 mostly African airlines
considered to be unsafe, in a move spurred by a spate of fatal
crashes last year. The list, effective March 25, bans 92 airlines
from plying EU skies all together and puts restrictions on another
three from flying certain types of airplanes into the 25-nation
bloc.
(AFP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, Pierre Clostermann
(85), French fighter pilot and WW II hero, died. In 1948 he
published the story of his exploits under the title “Le Grand
Cirque.” The English version was titled “The Big Show.”
(Econ, 4/8/06, p.85)
2006 Mar 22, Indonesia's Papua
remained tense with hundreds of students hiding in the jungle to
evade a police manhunt, as the death toll from riots over a US-run
mine rose to six.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, Insurgents
attacked a police station for a second day in a row, but US and
Iraqi forces captured 50 of them after a two-hour gunbattle.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, Israeli troops
raided the Aqwar Jaba West Bank refugee camp, killing a wanted
Palestinian militant and forcing two others to surrender.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, In Mexico Omar
Pimentel (38), the police chief of the border city of Nuevo Laredo,
resigned. He said he was tired from the stress of working in a city
dominated by drug cartels fighting a bloody turf war.
(AP, 3/24/06)
2006 Mar 22, In the Netherlands
an appeals chamber of the UN war crimes court dropped the life
sentence of Bosnian Serb Milomir Stakic and instead sentenced him to
40 years for overseeing detention camps in Bosnia.
(AFP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, In Nigeria heavy
winds ripped away much of the top nine floors of a fire-weakened
building in Lagos, raining debris on mostly empty streets and
leaving people on lower floors waving frantically for help.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, The Basque
separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire, ending a
decades-long campaign of violence and closing the door on one of
Western Europe's last active armed separatist movements.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, In Thailand a
truck crashed through a railroad crossing barrier and slammed into a
passenger train in Ratchaburi, causing a derailment and killing at
least six people.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, The UN gave a
green light to abolish the discredited Human Rights Commission on
June 16, clearing the way for the new Human Rights Council to become
the UN's main rights watchdog.
(AP, 3/22/06)
2006 Mar 22, World Water Day.
The 1st WWD was designated 13 years ago by the UN General Assembly.
(AFP, 3/22/06)
2007 Mar 22, North Carolina
Sen. John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth made a joint announcement
that he will continue his bid for the White House despite the
recurrence of her breast cancer.
(SFC, 3/23/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 22, A US federal judge
dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet
pornography, striking down a 1998 US law that makes it a crime for
commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful"
material.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, In southern
California authorities said 5 people had been arrested for running a
prostitution ring that offered sex with immigrant Chinese women.
(SFC, 3/23/07, p.B6)
2007 Mar 22, In Hawaii
Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless
shelter to a mansion, courtesy of billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto, a
Japanese real estate mogul, who is handing over eight of his
multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
Asked whether he was concerned about losing money on the effort, he
laughed and said: "This is pocket money for me."
(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Mar 22, Missouri’s state
board of education voted to take over the St. Louis school district,
effective in mid-June.
(Econ, 3/31/07, p.38)
2007 Mar 22, Fighting between
Afghan forces and Taliban militants in Helmand province killed at
least 49 militants and 7 police in what appears to be the biggest
independent operation yet by Afghan forces. Taliban commanders tried
to negotiate an end to four days of battles between Pakistani
tribesmen and foreign Al-Qaeda militants that have left at least 120
dead.
(AP, 3/22/07)(AFP, 3/22/07)(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Mar 22, Rafik Khalifa
(40), the head of a bank at the centre of Algeria's biggest
corruption scandal, was sentenced in absentia to life in prison.
Khalifa has been exiled in London since 2003, when hundreds of
millions of dollars was discovered missing from the Khalifa Bank.
Algeria has been seeking his extradition. The exiled former governor
of the central bank, Abdelawahab Keramane, and five others were also
sentenced in abstentia to 20 years in prison.
(AFP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Gordon Brown,
Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the government will
grant 35 billion pounds to Northern Ireland over the next four
years.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Counter-terrorist
police in England arrested three men in connection with the 2005
suicide attacks on the London transit system. London police said a
man held hostage for nine days following a dispute between drugs
gangs has been freed in Liverpool in what was the longest-running
kidnap they have ever dealt with.
(AFP, 3/22/07)(AP, 3/22/08)
2007 Mar 22, In Congo heavy
gunfire broke out in Kinshasa near the home of a former warlord who
placed second in last fall's presidential vote. Soldiers deployed
throughout the city, and residents fled in vehicles and on foot.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, The EU approved an
aviation deal with the US that opens up restricted trans-Atlantic
routes to new rivals, but bowed to British concerns in delaying when
the agreement takes effect. The EU said Boeing has benefited from
$23.7 billion in illegal state aid, hitting back at the US in a
tit-for-tat row at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over plane
subsidies.
(AP, 3/22/07)(Reuters, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, France 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.
(AFP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, In Iraq a rocket
landed near the prime minister's office during the first visit to
Iraq by the head of the UN in nearly a year and a half, sending
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ducking unharmed behind a podium at a
news conference. The US military announced that it had captured the
leaders of a Shiite insurgent network "directly connected" to the
killing in January of five American soldiers in Karbala by gunmen
speaking English, wearing US military uniforms and carrying American
weapons. The arrests of Qais Khazaali, his brother Laith Khazaali
and several other members of the network took place over the past
three days. In Baqouba the bullet-ridden body of a kidnapped local
official and mother of three was found dumped on a city street, one
day after masked gunmen stormed her house and took her away
handcuffed. A US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the
western section of Baghdad while his unit was engaged in "route
clearance operations."
(AP, 3/22/07)(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Mar 22, A Japanese court
sentenced Ryoji Miyauchi, former chief financial officer of dot-com
company Livedoor, to 20 months in prison for inflating earnings
reports.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Brian Joubert
became the first Frenchman in 42 years to win the world title by
taking the men's event at the World Figure Skating Championships in
Tokyo.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2007 Mar 22, Malaysia and
Thailand agreed to map out a series of socio-economic measures to
end rising sectarian tensions and violence in the kingdom's
insurgency-wracked south.
(AFP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, In Mozambique an
explosion at a weapons depot in a densely populated neighborhood of
Maputo killed at least 96 people and left more than 400 injured,
many of them children.
(AP, 3/23/07)
2007 Mar 22, Talks on halting
North Korea's nuclear program broke down abruptly on with the
country's chief nuclear envoy flying home after a dispute over money
frozen in a Macau bank could not be resolved.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, In Pakistan
lawyers held fresh protests over the removal of the chief justice,
as an inquiry into the beating of attorneys by police at another
demonstration got under way. Pakistan successfully test-fired a
nuclear-capable cruise missile with the capability to avoid radar
detection.
(AFP, 3/22/07)(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, South Korea said
it would build a park in memory of victims of the U.S. Army's mass
killing of South Korean refugees at the village of No Gun Ri.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Somali and
Ethiopian troops battled insurgents for a second day in Mogadishu.
The Somali government said Al-Qaeda has named Aden Hashi Ayro, a
ruthless Islamist commander, as its leader in Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/22/07)(AFP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Smugglers taking
illegal migrants from Somalia to Yemen forced hundreds of Africans
overboard in stormy seas in an effort to make a fast getaway from
security forces. 31 bodies were found and nearly 90 people remained
missing.
(AP, 3/27/07)
2007 Mar 22, Sudan temporarily
suspended 52 non-governmental organizations working in Darfur as the
new UN humanitarian chief began his first visit to the country,
hoping to win aid groups better access to the region.
(AP, 3/22/07)
2007 Mar 22, Zimbabwe's
Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube urged his countrymen to stand up to
the iron-fisted government of President Robert Mugabe. State-media
reported that the Zimbabwean government has urged African nations to
join hands to fight domination by powerful Western countries. A
Harare court ruled that injured activists could seek treatment
abroad.
(AFP, 3/22/07)(Reuters, 3/22/07)
2008 Mar 22, Michael Kassel
(54), San Francisco blues musician (the Hellhounds) poet known as
Vampyre Mike, died after a long illness. His books included
“Graveyard Golf” and “Going for the Low Blow.”
(SSFC, 4/20/08, p.B6)
2008 Mar 22, Israel Lopez,
Cuban bassist and composer known as “Cachao,” died in Miami. He is
credited with pioneering the mambo style of music (1937). In 1993
Andy Garcia, a Cuban American actor, made a documentary of Cachao’s
career.
(SSFC, 3/23/08, p.A2)
2008 Mar 22, Afghan and
international forces killed over 40 Taliban militants in an air and
ground strike in Uruzgan province. 2 coalition soldiers were killed
by a roadside bomb in Kandahar province.
(AP, 3/23/08)(SFC, 3/24/08, p.A12)
2008 Mar 22, In Bangladesh an
emergency official said a tropical storm has killed at least five
people. The storm also leveled around 3,000 huts.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, The population of
Botswana numbered about 1.8 million.
(Econ, 3/22/08, p.74)
2008 Mar 22, China said 19
people died in riots in the Tibetan capital last week and official
media warned against the unrest spreading to the northwest region of
Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims bridle under Chinese control. Exiled
Tibetans claim as many as 100 have died in the protests which
spilled over this week into neighboring ethnic-Tibetan areas.
(Reuters, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, More than 500
African Union troops arrived on the Comoros island of Moheli to join
local forces massed for a military offensive to retake the rebel
island of Anjouan.
(AFP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, The population of
the Union of Comoros was about 840,000.
(Econ, 3/22/08, p.55)
2008 Mar 22, Population if
Djibouti was about 800,000.
(Econ, 3/22/08, p.55)
2008 Mar 22, Egyptian and
European archeologists announced they had discovered a giant statue
of Queen Tiy, the wife of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III, on the
south Egypt site of the Colossi of Memnon.
(AFP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, Eighteen Ukrainian
sailors were missing after their tug boat sank off the Hong Kong
coast following a collision with a cargo ship. 7 people were
rescued. On Dec 13, 2010, a Hong Kong court convicted four seamen
over the deaths of the 18 Ukrainian sailors.
(Reuters, 3/23/08)(AFP, 1/13/10)
2008 Mar 22, A US airstrike
struck two checkpoints manned by US-allied Sunni fighters in
Samarra, killing six and injuring two. A suicide bomber drove a
truck laden with explosives into the home of the mayor in Samarra. 3
security guards were killed and four others injured. A bomb exploded
on a minibus in a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad,
killing at least one passenger and injuring 8. An awakening council
member in western Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood was killed and four
others were injured in a mortar blast. A roadside bomb targeting a
police patrol killed one passer-by and injured 7, in the northern
city of Kirkuk. A roadside bombing northwest of Baghdad killed 3 US
soldiers and two Iraqi civilians.
(AP, 3/22/08)(AP, 3/23/08)
2008 Mar 22, Magdi Allam (55),
Italy's most prominent Muslim, converted to Catholicism in a baptism
by the pope at a Vatican Easter service. The iconoclastic writer has
condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, US Vice President
Dick Cheney completing a two-day stay in Saudi Arabia, discussed
ways to stabilize the energy market with Saudi King Abdullah.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2008 Mar 22, In southern Sudan
two World Food Program (WFP) drivers on their way to the oil-rich
Abyei state were stabbed to death by six assailants.
(Reuters, 3/26/08)
2008 Mar 22, Ma Ying-jeou (57),
Taiwan's opposition candidate of the KMT, cruised to victory in the
presidential election, promising to expand economic ties with China
while protecting the island from being swallowed up politically by
its giant communist neighbor. Ma, a Harvard-educated lawyer and a
former mayor of Taipei, won 58% of the votes compared to 41.5% for
DPP challenger Frank Hsieh. The official Central Election Commission
said Taiwan's two referendums on joining the UN have failed.
(AP, 3/22/08)(Econ, 3/29/08, p.54)
2008 Mar 22, In Turkey dozens
of people were injured and scores detained as police used truncheons
and tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several eastern
cities.
(AP, 3/22/08)
2009 Mar 22, In Montana a
single-engine turboprop airplane crashed just short of Butte’s Bert
Mooney Airport, killing all 14 people aboard, including 7 children.
The aircraft had departed from Oroville, Calif., and the pilot had
filed a flight plan showing a destination of Bozeman.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, Frank 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.
(WSJ, 4/4/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 22, Afghan and US-led
coalition troops killed five suspected militants during a raid in
northern Kunduz province. But the local mayor said his house was
targeted and that the dead included his cook and driver. A rocket
slammed into the main NATO military base at Kandahar airfield,
killing a contractor and wounding six others. 2 NATO soldiers were
killed in a "hostile incident" in the same region.
(AP, 3/22/09)(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Australia
warring bikers brawled through the Sidney airport, beating one
suspected gang member to death and brandishing metal poles "like
swords" as they rampaged through the main domestic terminal in front
of terrified travelers. Anthony Zervas (29) was bludgeoned to death
with a crowd control barrier pole during the fracas. On June 30
Mahmoud "Mick" Hawi (29), head of the Comanchero motorcycle gang,
was charged with murder.
(AP, 3/22/09)(AFP, 6/30/09)
2009 Mar 22, In England a
murder hunt started with the discovery of a victim's left leg and
foot on the side of a Hertfordshire road. By Apr 11 all other body
parts were found except for the man’s hands.
(AFP, 4/13/09)
2009 Mar 22, British reality
television star Jade Goody (27) died in her sleep, after a very
public battle with cervical cancer.
(AFP, 3/22/09)(Econ, 3/28/09, p.98)
2009 Mar 22, In India the
Election Commission found Varun Gandhi (29), the great-grandson of
India's first prime minister, guilty of hate speech and inciting
violence against Muslims. He was filmed on March 16 comparing a
rival Muslim politician to Osama Bin Laden and threatening to cut
the throats of Muslims during two political rallies earlier this
month.
(AP, 3/23/09)(Econ, 4/4/09, p.46)
2009 Mar 22, Macedonia held
elections. The governing party's Gjorgje Ivanov (49) emerged as
favorite to win the presidency in an April 5 runoff vote against
51-year-old Social Democrat Ljubomir Frckoski.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Mexico gunmen
killed Edgar Garcia, a state police commander in charge of
investigating kidnappings and extortion in the western state of
Michoacan.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Pakistan
Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, the chief justice whose ouster spurred
waves of protests that led to a president's downfall, returned to
work, while the ruling party and opposition resolved to cooperate
despite their own clash over his reinstatement.
(AP, 3/22/09)
2009 Mar 22, A group of Saudi
clerics urged the kingdom's new information minister to ban women
from appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines, making clear
that the country's hardline religious establishment is skeptical of
a new push toward moderation.
(AP, 3/22/09)
2009 Mar 22, Off the coast of
Somalia pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic
weapons at Japanese, Greek and Hong Kong cargo ships but fled after
the ships took evasive maneuvers.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 22, In South Africa
the Sunday Independent said the Chinese embassy in South Africa had
confirmed its government had appealed to South Africa not to allow
the Dalai Lama into the country for a peace conference on March 27.
Archbishop Tutu threatened to pull out of the meeting and to demand
an explanation from the authorities. On March 24 organizers
postponed the South African peace conference of Nobel laureates
after the government denied a visa to Tibet's spiritual leader the
Dalai Lama.
(AP, 3/22/09)(AP, 3/24/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Sri Lanka the
military said it had killed two rebel leaders during fighting in the
northeast of the island, where the LTTE guerrillas are cornered.
(AFP, 3/22/09)
2009 Mar 22, Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, who has for years funneled state oil income
into sweeping social programs, vowed to cut nonessential state
spending and order a review of top officials' salaries as oil income
plunges. Chavez also called President Barack Obama "ignorant,"
saying he has a lot to learn about Latin America.
(AP, 3/22/09)
2010 Mar 22, In Maryland Renee
Bowman (44) was sentenced to 2 consecutive life terms for killing
her two adopted daughters and storing their bodies in a freezer. She
had continued to collect subsidies paid to adoptive parents of
special needs children.
(SFC, 3/23/10, p.A7)
2010 Mar 22, Google announced
that its China search engine, google.cn, would automatically
redirect queries to its service in China's semiautonomous territory
of Hong Kong, where Google is not legally required to censor
searches.
(AP, 3/23/10)
2010 Mar 22, US scientist Rita
Colwell (76) won the $150,000 Stockholm Water Prize for her research
on the prevention of cholera and other waterborne diseases.
(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, The radio of
Spirit, NASA’s Mars rover, fell silent. In 2011 engineers gave up
trying to re-establish contact.
(SFC, 5/26/11, p.A10)
2010 Mar 22, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai met a senior delegation from the insurgent group
Hezb-i-Islami in Kabul, an unprecedented step toward peace that may
signal divisions within the insurgency. NATO reported two more
service members were killed in separate explosions in southern
Afghanistan.
(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, West African
farmers appealed for help as drought and famine menaced people and
livestock, with malnutrition already affecting nearly a third of the
population. Leaders of the nine countries in the Permanent
Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)
planned to meet in N’Djamena on March 25.
(AFP, 3/23/10)
2010 Mar 22, British 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.
(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, In China four
executives of Australia mining giant Rio Tinto pleaded guilty in
Shanghai to taking bribes.
(SFC, 3/23/10, p.D3)
2010 Mar 22, Sandstorms
whipping across China shrouded cities in an unhealthy cloud of sand
and grit, with winds carrying the pollution outside the mainland as
far as Hong Kong and Taiwan.
(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, Dubai Media
reported that authorities planned to step up enforcement of a 2003
law prohibiting restaurants from using booze in food preparation.
(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, Former US
Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton visited Haiti’s capital
to raise aid and investment in the country reeling from the Jan 12
earthquake.
(SFC, 3/23/10, p.A2)
2010 Mar 22, In Iraq 4 people
were killed, including two policemen, in shootings in Baghdad.
(AFP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, Israeli forces
mistakenly shot and killed a fellow soldier while looking for three
Palestinians who crossed the border from the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, Japan deported
Abubakar Awudu Suraj, a Ghanaian who had lived illegally in Japan
for 22 years and was married to a Japanese citizen. Suraj was forced
onto a plane for Cairo and died shortly after his forced boarding.
(Econ, 5/15/10, p.48)
2010 Mar 22, In Mexico the
pre-dawn discovery of two bodies cut into pieces and shoved into two
black bags brought a tragic end to a search for two missing police
officers in southern Guerrero state. In the nearby resort of
Acapulco, police later found another two mutilated bodies and a
threatening message outside the house of the city's former deputy
traffic police chief.
(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, In Mexico Paulette
Gebara Farah (4), a disabled girl, was reported missing by her
parents. On March 30 Her body was found under the mattress of her
bed at her wealthy parents' apartment on the outskirts of Mexico
City. On May 21 federal investigators she had smothered accidentally
and was there the whole time police and family were hunting for her.
(AP, 4/1/10)(AP, 5/21/10)
2010 Mar 22, In Nigeria the
Magajin Gari Sharia court in the northern city of Kaduna ordered the
Civil Rights Congress (CRC), one of the country's leading rights
groups, to suspend its Twitter and Facebook online debates on Malam
Buba Bello Jangebe’s wrist amputation for theft, which was carried
out in 2000.
(AFP, 3/23/10)
2010 Mar 22, In southwestern
Pakistan a roadside bomb exploded in Quetta, killing one person and
injuring three more in an attack that police blamed on ethnic
militants.
(AP, 3/22/10)
2010 Mar 22, In Venezuela
former Zulia state Gov. Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, an outspoken opponent
of President Hugo Chavez, said that police have taken him into
custody while he awaits trial on conspiracy charges for saying
Venezuela has become a haven for drug trafficking.
(AP, 3/23/10)
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