Today in History
22th March
revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist
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| 1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death) | ||
| 1457 Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book | ||
| 1459 Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria was born | ||
| 1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury | ||
| 1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris | ||
| 1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England) was born | ||
| 1609 John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68) was born | ||
| 1621 Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherland | ||
| 1622 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown Va; 347 slain | ||
| 1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston) | ||
| 1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony | ||
| 1680 Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas | ||
| 1692 Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king | ||
| 1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer) | ||
| 1775 Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament | ||
| 1778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state | ||
| 1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State | ||
| 1803 Anthonie Waldrop, Dutch painter/lithographer was born | ||
| 1822 Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna | ||
| 1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones) | ||
| 1846 Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake) was born | ||
| 1848 After an insurrection, the Venetian Republic declared its independence from Austria. | ||
| 1857 Arnold Sauwen, Flemish poet (Along the Meuse) was born | ||
| 1857 Paul Doumer, gov-genl of Indo-China/13th Pres of France (1931-32) was born | ||
| 1859 The first political party dedicated to the working class, the Political Labour League of Victoria, was founded in Melbourne. | ||
| 1862 San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation | ||
| 1871 William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment | ||
| 1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico | ||
| 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris. | ||
| 1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought | ||
| 1914 World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins | ||
| 1915 The Russians captured the Austrian fortress of Przemysl, Poland. | ||
| 1917 The United States became the first country to recognise the provisional revolutionary government of Russia, following the overthrow of the monarchy. | ||
| 1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison | ||
| 1927 Federico Garc¡a Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid | ||
| 1929 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes | ||
| 1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal | ||
| 1934 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Ga | ||
| 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) | ||
| 1935 The first High Definition Television service was officially inaugurated by the director-general of German broadcasting in Berlin. | ||
| 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta | ||
| 1943 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour | ||
| 1943 Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium | ||
| 1943 SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children | ||
| 1944 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin | ||
| 1944 Germany announces its occupation of Hungary and the formation of a new government under Dome Sztojay. | ||
| 1945 The Arab League was formed in Cairo by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. | ||
| 1945 US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein | ||
| 1946 Britain recognised the independence of the protectorate of Transjordan. | ||
| 1947 President Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty | ||
| 1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 | ||
| 1953 Anton¡n Z potocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian | ||
| 1958 Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia | ||
| 1958 Liz Taylor's 3rd divorce (Mike Todd) | ||
| 1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes | ||
| 1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong | ||
| 1968 Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1968 Student riot in Nanterre near Paris | ||
| 1975 Walt Disney World Shopping Village opens | ||
| 1977 Dutch Den Uyl government falls | ||
| 1977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India | ||
| 1977 Uyl governament falls | ||
| 1979 Irish gunmen shot dead Sir Richard Sykes, British ambassador to the Netherlands, in The Hague. | ||
| 1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt | ||
| 1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6 | ||
| 1982 Iran offensive against Iraq | ||
| 1983 Labour Party candidate Chaim Herzog was elected president of Israel. | ||
| 1984 The Israeli government was defeated in parliament, forcing it into early general elections. | ||
| 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA | ||
| 1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill | ||
| 1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill | ||
| 1992 US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die | ||
| 1994 South Africa's Ciskei black homeland collapsed when Brigadier Oupa Gqozo resigned after a police revolt. | ||
| 1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands | ||
| 1995
Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist |
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| 1996 Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl | ||
| 1996 Gunmen massacred 11 people in a political attack in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa's Zulu heartland, hours after President Mandela visited the province. | ||
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