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March 22nd is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.  There are 284 days remaining until
the end of the calendar year.  March 22nd is World Water Day.

Births
1459
- Maximilian I, King of the Romans
1908 - Louis L'Amour, author (The Walking Drum)
1912 - Karl Malden, actor (The Streets of San Francisco)
1914 - Sonny Burke, musician
1923 - Marcel Marceau, renowned mime
1931 - William Shatner, actor (Star Trek)
1934 - Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator (Utah)
1943 - George Benson, musician, singer
1947 - James Patterson, author (Alex Cross, Maximum Ride)
1955 - Lena Olin, actress (The Ninth Gate)
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, actress (Pleasantville, Twilight)

Deaths
1820
- Stephen Decatur, naval officer, American hero
1945 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
2001 - William Hanna, animator, director, cartoonist (Hanna-Barbera)

Events
1621
- A peace treaty is signed between Massasoit of the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony.
1622 - Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers near Jamestown, Virginia , one-third of the colony's population in the
Jamestown Massacre.
1765 - The Stamp Act is introduced by the Parliament of Great Britain levying a tax on the American colonies.
1871 - William Woods Holden, North Carolina ’s Governor, becomes the first U.S. governor to be impeached and removed
from office.
1873 - The Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico pass a law to abolish slavery in the then Spanish colony.
1941 - Washington State ’s Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
1946 - The U.S. launches their first rocket into earth's atmosphere from White Sands, New Mexico.
1960 - The first patent for a laser is given to Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow.
1963 - The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me, which ranked #1 on the charts for 30 weeks.
1975 - A fire occurs at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama that results in an unsafe lowering of
cooling water levels.
1993 - The Intel Corporation begins to ship the Pentium chips that feature a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit
data path.
Calendar
January
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
February
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29
March
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
April
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
May
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
June
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
July
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
August
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
September
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
October
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
November
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
December
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
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