On This Day in History

March 22

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​Historical Events​

​1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans around Jamestown, Virginia, 347 killed

​1765 First direct British tax on American colonists, the Stamp Act, is passed by the British Parliament led 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 the electoral system of England and Wales, increasing the electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000

​1954 Northland Center, the world's largest shopping mall at the time, opens in Oak Park, Michigan

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​Famous Birthdays​

​Emperor Maximilian I​ ​1459 - 1519

​Wilhelm I​ ​1797 - 1888

​Hans Wilsdorf​ ​1881 - 1960

​Andrew Lloyd Webber​ ​77th Birthday

Also William Shatner (94) and James Patterson (78)

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​Famous Deaths​

​Jonathan Edwards​ ​1703 - 1758

​William Hanna​ ​1910 - 2001

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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

Genius Johann Goethe