History Events on March 22

USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.

#USAir_Flight_405

Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

#Karl_Wallenda

World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.

#Khatyn_massacre

Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.

#Nader_Shah

A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.

#2017_Westminster_attack

Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.

#Ferdinand_II_of_Aragon

Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.

#Illinois

The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.

#Arab_League

Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.

#Anne_Hutchinson

Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.

#Gordian_I

The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.

#Parliament_of_Great_Britain

Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.

#Arthur_Leonard_Schawlow

Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.

#Indian_massacre_of_1622

Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.

#Tara_Lipinski

The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.

#Austrian_Empire

The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

#Massachusetts_Bay_Colony

The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

#Emerald_Buddha

At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.

#2013_Thailand_refugee_camp_fire

Cullen-Harrison Act: President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.

#Cullen-Harrison_Act

Two buses crashes in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra killing at least 50 people.

#Ghana

The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.

#Cortes_Generales

The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.

#Emperor_of_China

Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.

#Fall_of_communism_in_Albania

The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.

#Equal_Rights_Amendment

Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).

#Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic

Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.

#1939_German_ultimatum_to_Lithuania

In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

#North_Carolina

World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.

#Royal_Navy

NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.

#NASA

The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

#Stanley_Cup

Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.

#2016_Brussels_bombings

Robert S. Mueller III delivers his report on the Russian government's influence on the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.

Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.

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 Hellfire missiles.

Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.

The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.

In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.

The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris

In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.

The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.

The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.

Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.