What are the important events that happened on March 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 22 is the 81st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 9, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,742,601,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontahenagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 332 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,474 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 22 Historical Events
- 1622 –Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population.
- 1630 –The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- 1923 –The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
- 1939 –World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
- 1954 –Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
- 1972 –The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
- 1975 –A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
- 1997 –Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women’s World Figure Skating Champion.
- 2004 –Ahmed 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 AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
- 2006 –ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
Who were born on March 22?
- 1503 –Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)
- 1808 –David Swinson Maynard, American frontiersman and physician (d. 1873)
- 1812 –Stephen Pearl Andrews, American abolitionist (d. 1886)
- 1912 –Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985)
- 1913 –Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
- 1931 –William Shatner, Canadian actor
- 1937 –Armin Hary, German athlete
- 1946 –Don Chaney, American basketball player and head coach
- 1975 –Jiří Novák, Czech tennis player
- 1976 –Kellie Shanygne Williams, American actress
Who died on March 22?
- 1544 –Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
- 1685 –Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
- 1840 –Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
- 1896 –Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)
- 1974 –Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b. 1939)
- 1977 –A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
- 1996 –Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
- 2005 –Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
- 2006 –Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
- 2009 –Jade Goody, British reality TV ‘celebrity’(b. 1981)
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