March 22......

March 22 is the 81st (82nd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian III are proclaimed Roman emperors.

● 752 - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later

● 1349 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)

● 1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book

● 1492 - Columbus and Alonzo Pietro set sail for the Indies. Bad things follow.

● 1519 - Mexico - Some of the bad things. Cortez brings a sample of Western Civilization to the New World in the name of his King and Catholic faith - looting, killing, subjugating, raping, and massacres in his "March of Death."

● 1556 - Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury

● 1594 - French King Henri IV festival in Paris France

● 1621 - Hugo de Grote escapes in bookcase from Loevenstein castle, Netherlands

● 1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags which both sides kept for fifty years.

● 1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.

● 1630 - Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

● 1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.

● 1680 - Parliament of Breisach accept French sovereignty over Elzas

● 1692 - Emperor Leopold I names duke Earnest August of Braunschweig, king

● 1719 - Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.

● 1733 - Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)

● 1765 - Stamp Act imposed upon American colonies by Great Britain. The infamous "taxation without representation," with which North Americans have again become familiar of late. It was repealed on March 17, 1766.

● 1775 - Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament

● 1778 - Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state

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

● 1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State

● 1794 - Herbert Anarcharsis Clootz executed in Paris.

● 1794 - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries

● 1809 - Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.

● 1812 - Birth of Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812-1886), Templeton, Mass. Founder of early anarchist colony "Modern Times." Lawyer, anarchist, free-love advocate.

● 1819 - Birth of Joseph P. Webster, American sacred music writer. During his lifetime, Webster composed over 1,000 pieces of music, including the still_popular hymn tune SWEET BY AND BY ("There's a Land That is Fairer Than Day").

● 1836 - Birth of Edgar P. Stites, American Methodist frontier preacher and missionary. Stites is remembered today as author of the hymns "Beulah Land" and "Trusting Jesus."

● 1849 - The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.

● 1861 - 1st US nursing school chartered

● 1862 - San Marino & Italy conclude treaty of friendship & cooperation

● 1865 - Raid at Wilson's: Chickaswas AL to Macon GA

● 1871 - In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.

● 1872 - Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment

● 1873 - A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.

● 1874 - The first meeting of the newly established Young Men's Hebrew Association was held in New York City. Other early "Y's" were founded in Philadelphia (1875), St. Louis (1880) and San Francisco (1885). (The YMHA became the forerunner of the modern Jewish Community Center.)

● 1882 - Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories

● 1895 - First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière.

● 1901 - Japan proclaimed that it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.

● 1902 - Great Britain and Persia agreed to link Europe and India by telegraph.

● 1903 - Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought

● 1903 - In Columbia, the region near Galera De Zamba was devastated by a volcanic eruption.

● 1904 - The first color photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.

● 1905 - France - Trial of Alexander Marius Jacob concludes at Amiens. Marius Jacob was an anarchist, burglar, and member of "Les travailleurs de la nuit" (Workers of the Night) gang, credited with 150 burglaries. Marius Jacob and Felix Bour received life in prison, 14 people got sentences ranging from five to 20 years, while another seven were freed.

● 1905 - Child miners in Britain received a maximum 8-hour workday.

● 1907 - Russians troops completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces.

● 1907 - In Paris, it was reported that male cab drivers dressed as women to attract riders.

● 1908 - Louis L'Amour, the best-selling American author who wrote more than 100 books, was born.

● 1910 - In Liberia, a telegraph cable linked Tenerife and Monrovia.

● 1914 - World's 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins

● 1915 - A German zeppelin made a night raid on Paris railway stations.

● 1919 - The first international airline service was inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.

● 1922 - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison

● 1929 - USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor

● 1930 - Birthday of Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, religious broadcaster, politician and founder in 1963 of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). {A true nut case.}

● 1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill legalizing the sale and possession of beer and wine containing up to 3.2% alcohol.

● 1934 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)

● 1935 - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York)

● 1935 - Persia was renamed Iran.

● 1939 - World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.

● 1941 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.

● 1942 - Manifesto against Nazi control of education read in most churches, Norway.

● 1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, Britain's Royal Navy thwarts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.

● 1942 - Heavy German assault on Malta

● 1943 - Dutch work week extended to 54 hour

● 1943 - Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium

● 1943 - SS police chief Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children

● 1943 - World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.

● 1944 - 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin

● 1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.

● 1945 - US 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein

● 1946 - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)

● 1946 - Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan

● 1947 - Pres. Truman issues an order calling for strict FBI check-ups into the loyalty of all prospective federal employees. The order results in the creation of the "Attorney General's List" of subversive organizations. The order requires more than two million people to swear they never directly or indirectly associated with any of 78 subversive organizations listed by Attorney General Tom Clark. Employees are invited to speak "freely" -- with absolute discretion -- about any "deviant" acquaintance. Not even those named will learn who snitched (unable to confront their accusers). The first person convicted under the order is Rhodes scholar and publisher Carl Marzani, who was sentenced to three years in prison for perjury. The last organized resistance to the loyalty oaths will be a 1949 lawsuit by 26 postal workers. Several hundred federal employees are fired under the program, and 438 people will resign rather than sign. Thousands more remain under suspicion for years.

● 1947 - The Greek government imposed martial law in Laconia and southern Greece.

● 1948 - The United States announced a land reform plan for Korea.

● 1952 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44

● 1953 - Antonín Zápotocky chosen as president of Czechoslovakia

● 1954 - U.S. Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announces that "the French are going to win" in Indochina.

● 1954 - 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield MI

● 1954 - Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.

● 1956 - King convicted for bus boycott; Civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King, has been convicted of organizing an illegal boycott by black passengers of buses in the US state of Alabama.

● 1956 - Death penalty against Prime Minister-director Léon Jungschlaeger

● 1957 - Earthquake gives San Francisco shakes

● 1957 - Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian

● 1958 - Women demonstrate against pass laws, South Africa.

● 1958 - Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi-Arabia

● 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

● 1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.

● 1963 - Profumo denies affair with model; The Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, denies any impropriety with Christine Keeler.

● 1965 - D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

● 1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

● 1968 - France - March 22nd Movement emerges -- an organization with no hierarchy and no ideological program. Includes members of various groups but also unorganized students. Dany Cohn-Bendit soon established himself as a principal spokesman; describing himself as "a megaphone for the movement and an anarchist by the negation of authoritarian hierarchies as communism and capitalism." Cohn-Bendit and the Situationists wanted central coordinated worker/student-councils, who act together but preserve their autonomy. The Sorbonne was transformed from an institutionalized bureaucracy to "a volcano of revolutionary ideas."

● 1968 - Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia

● 1968 - Student riot in Nanterre near Paris France

● 1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

● 1972 - Thirteen member National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommends legalization of marijuana. {Of course the politicians of now and then ignore the advice and America's second Prohibition continues to keep record numbers in prison.}

● 1972 - Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) {Of all the amendments that have never been fully ratified this is the one we as Americans should be most ashamed of.}

● 1974 - The Viet Cong proposed a new truce with the U.S. and South Vietnam. The truce included general elections.

● 1975 - A technician checking for air leaks with a lighted candle causes a $100 million fire at the Brown's Ferry reactor in Decatur, Alabama. The fire burned out electrical controls, lowering the cooling water to dangerous levels.

● 1977 - Dutch Den Uyl government falls

● 1977 - Indira Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India

● 1978 - France performs nuclear test

● 1978 - Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

● 1979 - British ambassador assassinated in Holland; British ambassador in Holland Sir Richard Sykes is shot dead outside his Dutch home.

● 1979 - Margaret Thatcher puts down an Early Day Motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan.

● 1979 - Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt

● 1980 - Thirty thousand march in Washington, D.C. against reintroduction of draft registration.

● 1980 - Schild family reunited with daughter; Teenager Annabel Schild is reunited with her mother after being released from seven months in captivity in Sardinia.

● 1981 - Scientists Against Nuclear Arms founded, Milton Keynes, Britain.

● 1981 - 1st class postage raised to 18¢ from 15¢

● 1981 - Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6

● 1982 - 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched

● 1982 - Iran offensive against Iraq

● 1983 - Sixteen arrested in four-day cross-country demonstration against shipments of nuclear warheads by train.

● 1983 - Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president

● 1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.

● 1985 - NASA launches Intelsat VA

● 1987 - The Mobro 4,000, piled with 3,168 tons of New York garbage, begins a 162-day, 6,000-mile search for a port willing to take its load. It is rebuffed by six states and three countries before New York City agrees to burn the trash.

● 1988 - Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill

● 1989 - US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate

● 1989 - The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee reported the class gap was widening.

● 1989 - Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former secretary, begins two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.

● 1990 - Death of Geoffrey Ostergaard, gentle anarchist/pacifist, England.

● 1990 - Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill

● 1991 - Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband

● 1992 - US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at La Guardia, 27 die

● 1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

● 1994 - Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)

● 1994 - South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland

● 1994 - Soyuz TM-21 lands

● 1995 - Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993.

● 1995 - Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist

● 1995 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space.

● 1996 - Göran Persson succeeds Ingvar Carlsson as Swedish prime minister.

● 1996 - STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit

● 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)

● 2002 - Woman granted 'right to die;' A woman paralysed from the neck down wins the legal right to die by having her treatment withdrawn.

● 2002 - The U.S. Postal Rate Commission approved a request for a postal rate increase of first-class stamps from 34 cents to 37 cents by June 30. It was the first time a postal rate case was resolved through a settlement between various groups. The groups included the U.S. Postal Service, postal employees, mailer groups and competitors.

● 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

● 2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.

● 2006 - Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.

● 2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

BIRTHS

● 1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1234)

● 1366 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399)

● 1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)

● 1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)

● 1599 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)

● 1609 - King John II Casimir of Poland (d. 1672)

● 1663 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)

● 1684 - William Pulteney Bath, English Whig politician; opposed Sir Robert Walpole (d. 1764)

● 1712 - Edward Moore, English writer (d. 1757)

● 1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (d. 1799)

● 1723 - Charles Carroll, American statesman (d. 1783)

● 1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter; leading Neoclassicist (d. 1779)

● 1797 - King Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888)

● 1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)

● 1814 - Thomas Crawford, American sculptor of "Freedom" figure on top of the Capitol dome (d. 1857)

● 1817 - Bahá'u'lláh, Persian prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)

● 1817 - Braxton Bragg, American Confederate general (d. 1876)

● 1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia (d. 1846)

● 1860 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)

● 1866 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (d. 1913)

● 1868 - Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)

● 1869 - Emilio Aguinaldo, First President of the 1st Philippines Republic (d. 1964)

● 1878 - Michel Théato, Luxembourgian athlete (d. 1919)

● 1880 - Ernie Quigley, Canadian-American sports official (d. 1960)

● 1884 - Arthur Vandenberg, American Republican senator (d. 1951)

● 1887 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961)

● 1896 - Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-born American stage, television and film star (d. 1964)

● 1896 - He Long, Chinese marshal (d. 1969)

● 1899 - Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)

● 1901 - Greta Kempton, American artist (d. 1991)

● 1902 - Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect (d. 1949)

● 1907 - James Gavin, American army commander in World War II (d. 1990)

● 1907 - Lucia dos Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)

● 1908 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)

● 1909 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983)

● 1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985)

● 1912 - Karl Malden, American actor

● 1913 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)

● 1913 - Lew Wasserman, American film studio executive (d. 2002)

● 1915 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer

● 1918 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (d. 1997)

● 1920 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (d. 2000)

● 1920 - Ross Martin, Polish-American actor (d. 1981)

● 1923 - Marcel Marceau, French mime

● 1924 - Allen Neuharth, American businessman

● 1928 - Carrie Donovan, American fashion editor (d. 2001)

● 1928 - Ed Macauley, American basketball player

● 1930 - Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator

● 1930 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist

● 1930 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist

● 1931 - Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate

● 1931 - William Shatner, Canadian actor (''Star Trek'')

● 1933 - Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran

● 1933 - May Britt, Swedish actress

● 1934 - Orrin Hatch, American politician

● 1935 - M. Emmet Walsh, American actor

● 1935 - Gene Oliver, American baseball player

● 1936 - Ron Carey, American labor leader

● 1936 - Roger Whittaker, British singer

● 1937 - Armin Hary, German athlete

● 1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d. 1996)

● 1940 - Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1941 - Jeremy Clyde, British actor (Chad and Jeremy)

● 1941 - Billy Collins, American poet

● 1941 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor

● 1943 - George Benson, American musician

● 1943 - Keith Relf, British musician (The Yardbirds) (d. 1976)

● 1946 - Rudy Rucker, American author

● 1947 - James Patterson, Author

● 1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist

● 1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer

● 1949 - Fanny Ardant, French actress

● 1950 - Jocky Wilson, darts player

● 1952 - Bob Costas, American sports commentator

● 1955 - Pete Sessions, American politician

● 1955 - Lena Olin, Swedish actress

● 1955 - James House, Country singer

● 1956 - Generosa Ammon, widow of Ted Ammon (d. 2003)

● 1957 - Stephanie Mills, American actress

● 1958 - Laurie David, American political activist; wife of Larry David

● 1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor

● 1959 - Mike Brey, American college basketball coach

● 1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs

● 1966 - Song Kwang Sik, Korean singer

● 1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist

● 1968 - Euronymous, Norwegian black metal musician

● 1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist

● 1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer

● 1972 - Shawn Bradley, American basketball player

● 1972 - Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater

● 1972 - Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)

● 1973 - Joe Nedney, American football player

● 1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player

● 1974 - Kidada Jones, American actress

● 1975 - Jiří Novák, Czech tennis player

● 1975 - Cole Hauser, Actor

● 1976 - Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player

● 1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress

● 1976 - Kellie Williams, Actress

● 1977 - John Otto, Rock musician (Limp Bizkit)

● 1979 - Aaron North, American musician

● 1980 - Shannon Bex, American singer (Danity Kane)

● 1980 - Pamela O'Connor, Scottish ice dancer

● 1995 - Alyssa Bogan, American Singer

DEATHS

● 1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)

● 1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian

● 1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388)

● 1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)

● 1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)

● 1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)

● 1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)

● 1758 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (b. 1703)

● 1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)

● 1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)

● 1820 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)

● 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)

● 1840 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)

● 1896 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)

● 1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)

● 1924 - William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)

● 1945 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)

● 1995 - Alyssa Bogan, Student

● 1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)

● 1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)

● 1958 - Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)

● 1974 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b.1939)

● 1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)

● 1978 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)

● 1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b.1915)

● 1982 - Jenny Curran, character played by Hanna R. Hall as a child and Robin Wright Penn as an adult (b. 1945)

● 1986 - Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)

● 1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)

● 1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)

● 1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)

● 1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)

● 2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)

● 2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)

● 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas

● 2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)

● 2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)

● 2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Basil of Ancyra
● St. Benvenutus Scotivoli
● St. Lea of Rome
● St. Nicholas Owen
● St. Callinica & Basilissa
● St. Darerca
● St. Deogratius
● St. Epaphroditus
● St. Octavian
● St. Paul of Narbonne
● St. Reinhilde of Ghent
● St. Saturninus
● St. Trien
● Bl. Genta of Maaseik

● Easter Sunday - 1818, 2285. In the Gregorian Calendar 22 March is the earliest date on which Easter Sunday can fall (25 April is the latest).

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for March 9 (Civil Date: March 22)
● The Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste: Cyrion (Quirio), Candidus, Domnus, Hesychius, Heraclius, Smaragdus, Eunoicus, Valens, Vivianus, Claudius, Priscus, Theodulus, Eutychius, John, Santhias, Helianus, Sisinius, Angius, Aetius, Flavius, Acacius, Ecdicius, Lysimachus, Alexander, Elias, Gorgonius, Theophilus, Dometian, Gaius, Leontius, Athanasius, Cyril, Sacerdon, Nicholas, Valerius, Philoctimon, Severian, Chudion, Aglaius, and Meliton.
● Martyr Urpasianus of Nicomedia.
● Righteous Caesarius, brother of St. Gregory the Theologian.
● "Albazin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos ("The Word Was Made Flesh").
● Repose of Elder Cleopas, disciple of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1778) and Righteous priest Theodosius Levitsky (1845).

● Old Roman Catholic:
● St. Isidore the Farm-Laborer, confessor

● Lutheran:
● Jonathan Edwards, teacher/missionary

● Anglican:
● James De Koven, priest

● The fourth day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.

● Jordan, Lebanon : Arab League Day (1945)

● Puerto Rico : Emancipation Day (1873)

● World Water Day.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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