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22 March, 2008
The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008.
22 March, 2006
ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
22 March, 2006
BC Ferries M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.
22 March, 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.
22 March, 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.
22 March, 1997
Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the womens world figure skating competition.
22 March, 1997
The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth.
22 March, 1995
Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.
22 March, 1993
The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
22 March, 1989
Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
22 March, 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.
22 March, 1979
Margaret Thatcher puts down an early day motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan.
22 March, 1978
Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
22 March, 1975
A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
22 March, 1960
Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
22 March, 1954
Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
22 March, 1945
The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
22 March, 1943
World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
22 March, 1942
World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Britains Royal Navy confronts Italys Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
22 March, 1941
Washingtons Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
22 March, 1939
World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
22 March, 1933
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
22 March, 1923
The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
22 March, 1895
First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
22 March, 1894
The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
22 March, 1888
The Football League is formed.
22 March, 1873
A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
22 March, 1871
In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
22 March, 1849
The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
22 March, 1829
The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
22 March, 1809
Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
22 March, 1784
The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
22 March, 1765
The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
22 March, 1638
Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
22 March, 1630
Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
22 March, 1622
Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colonys population.
22 March, 1621
The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
22 March, 238
Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.

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