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This day in history: 22 March

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394 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 22 March.
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2026: Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Two fatalities were reported, both being the captain and the co-pilot. This mark

Holidays and observances

Bihar Day (Bihar, India)

Christian feast day: Basil of Ancyra

Christian feast day: Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen

Christian feast day: Darerca of Ireland

Christian feast day: Epaphroditus

Christian feast day: Jonathan Edwards (Lutheranism)

Christian feast day: Lea of Rome

Christian feast day: March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Nicholas Owen

Christian feast day: Paul of Narbonne

Earliest day on which Easter Sunday can fall (last in 1818, will not happen again until 2285), while April 25 is the latest. (Christianity)

Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud (Puerto Rico)

Events

2026Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Two fatalities were reported, both being the captain and the co-pilot. This mark

2024At least 151 people are killed and 609 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.

2021Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.

2020Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.

2020Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.

2019The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.

2019Two buses crash in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.

2017A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.

2017Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.

2016Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.

2013At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.

2006Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.

2004Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.

1997Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.

1997Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.

1996NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on its 16th mission, STS-76.

1995Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.

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

1992Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.

1992USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.

1988The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.

1982NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.

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

1975A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama, causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.

1972In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.

1972The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.

1963The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me.

1960Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.

1957A United States Air Force aircraft disappears with all 67 people on board somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.

1955A United States Navy Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster crashes into Hawaii's Waiʻanae Range, killing 66.

1946The United Kingdom grants full independence to Transjordan.

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

1945World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany, is heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.

1943World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.

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

1939Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.

1934The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.

1933Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.

1933Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.

1920Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attack the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).

Born on this day

2001Artūrs Šilovs, Latvian ice hockey player

2000Dimitrios Meliopoulos, Greek footballer

1999Mick Schumacher, German racing driver

1998Noah Lalonde, American actor. Known for his role as Cole Walter in My Life with the Walter Boys.

1997Alex Meret, Italian footballer

1997Chimezie Metu, Nigerian-American basketball player

1997Martin Wong, Hong Kong model and actor

1994Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarusian tennis player

1994Dax, Canadian rapper and singer

1994Edwin Díaz, Puerto Rican baseball player

1994Ha Sung-woon, South Korean singer

1994Taurean Prince, American basketball player

1992Edy Tavares, Cape Verdean basketball player

1992Roston Chase, Barbadian cricketer

1989J. J. Watt, American football player

1989Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer

1988Chris Ivory, American football player

1987Ike Davis, American baseball player

1987Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist (died 2013)

1987Liam Doran, British rallycross driver

1986Dexter Fowler, American baseball player

1985Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist

1985Justin Masterson, American baseball player

1985Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer

1985Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer

1984Piotr Trochowski, German footballer

1983Thomas Davis Sr., American football player

1982Constance Wu, American actress

1982Deng Gai, South Sudanese basketball player

1982Enrico Gasparotto, Italian cyclist

1982Michael Janyk, Canadian skier

1982Michael Morse, American baseball player

1982Mike Smith, Canadian ice hockey player

1982Piá, Brazilian footballer

1981Arne Gabius, German runner

1981Mims, American rapper

1979Aaron North, American guitarist

1979Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player

1979Michalis Kouinelis, Greek hip hop singer

1978Josh Heupel, American football player and coach

Died on this day

2026Lionel Jospin, French civil servant and politician, 165th Prime Minister of France (born 1937)

2025Andy Peebles, English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator (born 1948)

2025Jessica Aber, American lawyer (born 1981)

2024Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (born 1925)

2019Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)

2018Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (born 1911)

2016Rita Gam, American actress (born 1927)

2016Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (born 1969)

2015Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (born 1933)

2015Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager (born 1923)

2015Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)

2014Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and manager (born 1929)

2014Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (born 1965)

2014Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1938)

2014Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author (born 1928)

2013Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (born 1918)

2013Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (born 1951)

2012David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic (born 1943)

2012Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (born 1928)

2012Neil L. Whitehead, English anthropologist and author (born 1956)

2011Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (born 1920)

2011Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (born 1926)

2010James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)

2010Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (born 1943)

2008Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (born 1918)

2007U. G. Krishnamurti, Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (born 1918)

2006Kurt von Trojan, Austrian-Australian journalist and author (born 1937)

2006Pierre Clostermann, French soldier, pilot, and politician (born 1921)

2006Pío Leyva, Cuban singer and author (born 1917)

2005Gemini Ganesan, Indian film actor (born 1920)

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“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

Lao Tzu

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