March 22nd
1622
Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
1765
The Stamp Act was enacted on the American colonies by Britain.
1820
U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron.
1894
The first Stanley Cup championship game was played. The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (which won the cup unchallenged the previous year) triumphed over the Ottawa Capitals.
1895
Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.
1923
The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
1963
The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," was released in Great Britain.
1987
A barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage left Islip, N.Y., on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. The barge was turned away by several states and three countries before space was found back in Islip.
1989
Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
1990
A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil.
1991
High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, N.H., of murder-conspiracy.
1997
Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet’s next pass is predicted for the year 4397.
Birthdays
97 Karl Malden Actor
78 William Shatner Actor ("Star Trek," "Boston Legal")
74 M. Emmet Walsh Actor
62 James Patterson Author
61 Wolf Blitzer Broadcast journalist
61 Andrew Lloyd Webber Composer
60 Fanny Ardant Actress
57 Bob Costas Sportscaster
54 Lena Olin Actress
50 Matthew Modine Actor
34 Anne Dudek Actress
34 Cole Hauser Actor
33 Kellie Williams Actress
33 Reese Witherspoon Actress
32 John Otto Rock musician (Limp Bizkit)
21
Kasubot Cigar Asylum Inmate
74 Leonard 'Chico' Marx 3/22/1887 - 10/11/61 American actor, one of the Marx brothers
80 Louis L'Amour 3/22/1908 - 6/10/1988 American best-selling author of more than 100 books