March 22

1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci as chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.

1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.

1622 – Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.

1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent at odds with the established Puritan clergy.

1713 – The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.

1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.

1794 – The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves

1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

1895 –  Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate motion picture technology for the Société pour L’Encouragement à l’Industrie, in Paris.

1933 – Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, at Dachau, Germany, near Munich. Today, it is maintained as a museum and example of Nazi tyranny.

1960 – Working at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.

1972 – In the case of Eisenstadt v. Baird, the Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.

1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1988 – Congress votes to override President Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.

1992 – USAir Flight 405, a Fokker- F28, crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport, killing 24 of the 69 passengers and crew aboard.

1993 – Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips to market.

1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women’s World Figure Skating Champion.

2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist terrorist group Hamas, 2 bodyguards, and 9 bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.

2006 – 3 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.

2019 – The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.

2021 – At a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, Syrian born, and naturalized citizen, Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa kills 10 people and wounds another before being shot,  wounded and captured by  police. Found mentally incompetent, he has not stood trial to date and is being held at a state hospital in Pueblo.