March 22<\/p>\n
1508 \u2013 Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci as chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.<\/p>\n
1621 \u2013 The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.<\/p>\n
1622 \u2013 Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.<\/p>\n
1630 \u2013 The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.<\/p>\n
1638 \u2013 Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent at odds with the established Puritan clergy.<\/p>\n
1713 \u2013 The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.<\/p>\n
1765 \u2013 The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.<\/p>\n
1794 \u2013 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<\/p>\n
1871 \u2013 In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.<\/p>\n
1895 \u2013\u00a0 Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumi\u00e8re demonstrate motion picture technology for the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pour L’Encouragement \u00e0 l’Industrie, in Paris.<\/p>\n
1933 \u2013 Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, at Dachau, Germany, near Munich. Today, it is maintained as a museum and example of Nazi tyranny.<\/p>\n
1960 \u2013 Working at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.<\/p>\n
1972 \u2013 In the case of Eisenstadt v. Baird<\/em>, the Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 Congress votes to override President Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips to market.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women’s World Figure Skating Champion.<\/p>\n 2004 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 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,\u00a0 wounded and captured by\u00a0 police. Found mentally incompetent, he has not stood trial to date and is being held at a state hospital in Pueblo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 22 1508 \u2013 Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci as chief navigator of the Spanish Empire. 1621 \u2013 The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. 1622 \u2013 Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91018,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66036\/revisions\/91018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}