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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1622 – The Powhatan Confederacy under Chief Opchanacanough killed almost 350 English settlers around Jamestown, a third of the Colony of Virginia's population. | unreferenced section |
| 1849 – First Italian War of Independence: After capturing the fortress town of Mortara, forces led by Austrian General Joseph Radetzky von Radetz routed Sardinian troops at the Battle of Novara. | multiple issues |
| 1871 – William Woods Holden became the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office due to impeachment. | unreferenced section |
| 1920 – A pogrom in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azeris destroyed the Armenian-populated portions of the town. | quote farm |
| 1933 – The Holocaust: Construction of the first Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was completed. | refimprove section |
| 1945 – Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, and Yemen founded the Arab League, a regional organization that facilitates political, economic, cultural, scientific and social programs designed to promote the interests of the Arab world. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – Please Please Me, the first album recorded by The Beatles, was released. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 238 – Because of his father's advanced age, Gordian II was proclaimed joint Roman emperor with Gordian I.
- 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
- 1784 – The Emerald Buddha was installed in its current location at the Wat Phra Kaew on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
- 1943 – World War II: Almost the entire population of the village of Khatyn in Belarus was massacred by Nazi forces, with participation from their Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators.
- 1984 – In the longest and costliest criminal trial in United States history, teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were falsely charged with satanic ritual abuse of schoolchildren.
- 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashed shortly after liftoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 27 people and leading to studies of the effects of ice on aircraft.
- 1995 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov of the Soyuz programme returned from the Mir space station after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.
- 2004 – Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a Palestinian imam who was a founder and the spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed by a missile from an Israeli helicopter gunship as he left early morning prayers.
- Born/died: Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (b. 1615) · Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (b. 1822) · Reese Witherspoon (b. 1976) · Kenzō Tange (d. 2005) · James Black (d. 2010)
Notes
- Erawan Shrine (1784) appears on March 21, so Emerald Buddha should not appear in the same year
March 22: World Water Day; Shushan Purim in Jerusalem and Susa (Judaism, 2019)
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Amerigo Vespucci
- 1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon appointed Amerigo Vespucci (pictured) to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.
- 1638 – Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for teaching that Christians were not bound by law.
- 1913 – Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
- 1942 – Second World War: The Royal Navy confronted Italy's Regia Marina at the Second Battle of Sirte in the Mediterranean Sea near the Gulf of Sirte.
- 2014 – A massive landslide in Oso, Washington, killed 43 people after engulfing a rural neighborhood, the largest death toll for a standalone landslide in U.S. history.
Caroline Norton (b. 1808) · Juan Uribe (b. 1979) · Bebo Valdés (d. 2013)