On This Day in History

March 22

Historical Events

1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed.

1765 Stamp Act passed, the first direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville.

The Emerald Buddha of Thailand, considered the palladium of the nation and one of its most sacred sites

1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

1832 British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to electoral system of England and Wales, increasing electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000.

1954 Northland Center, the world's largest shopping mall at the time, opens in Oakpark, Michigan.

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong.

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Famous Birthdays

Wilhelm I 1797 - 1888 Emilio Aguinaldo 1869 - 1964

William Shatner 93rd Birthday Andrew Lloyd Webber 76th Birthday

Also Hans Wilsdorf, James Patterson (77) and Reese Witherspoon (48).

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Famous Deaths

D. S. Senanayake 1884 - 1952 William Hanna 1910 - 2001

Also Jonathan Edwards and James Black.

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Have You Heard The One About Johann Goethe?

With his collected works amounting to 143 volumes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who died on this day, is considered to be one of the world’s great writers

The Great Writer Johann Goethe