March 22
1312 - Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering the dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar.
1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
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.
1882 - Congress outlawed polygamy.
1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.
1929 - A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sank a Canadian-registered schooner, the I'm Alone, which was suspected of carrying bootleg liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico.
1933 - During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
1933 - The first German concentration camp was opened at Dachau.
1941 - The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state went into operation.
1945 - The Arab League was formed in Cairo by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
1946 - The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end.
1962 - Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut at age 19 in the musical "I Can Get it For You Wholesale" at the Shubert Theater.
1965 - Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home," his first featuring electric guitar, was released.
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the commander of American forces in Vietnam, would leave that post to become the U.S. Army's new Chief of Staff.
1968 - The first Red Lobster restaurant opened in Lakeland, Florida.
1972 - Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment and sent it to the states to be ratified. The amendment failed to get the required 38 states to ratify it.
1978 - Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1988 - Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
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 teacher Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire of murder-conspiracy.
1993 - Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium processor computer chip.
1995 - Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993.
1997 - The Hale-Bopp comet made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet's next pass is predicted for the year 4397.
2006 - The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain.
2010 - Google announced it would stop censoring search results on its site in China by shifting it from the mainland to Hong Kong.
2012 - Amadou Toumani Toure, the president of Mali, was ousted in a coup.
2013 - Anxious to keep Syria's civil war from spiraling into even worse problems, President Barack Obama said during a visit to Jordan that he worried about the country becoming a haven for extremists when — not if — President Bashar Assad was ousted from power.
Birthdays
20 - Paola Andino (actress)
23 - Nick Robinson (actor)
29 - J.J. Watt (football player)
30 - Tania Raymonde (actress)
32 - Dexter Fowler (baseball player)
33 - James Wolk (actor)
36 - Constance Wu (actress)
37 - Tiffany Dupont (actress)
42 - Reese Witherspoon (actress)
42 - Kellie Williams (actress)
43 - Cole Hauser (actor)
43 - Anne Dudek (actress)
43 - Guillermo Diaz (actor)
47 - Keegan-Michael Key (actor/comedian)
53 - Rick Harrison (reality star)
59 - Matthew Modine (actor)
61 - Stephanie Mills (actress/singer)
63 - Lena Olin (actress)
66 - Bob Costas (sportscaster)
69 - Fanny Ardant (actress)
70 - Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer)
70 - Wolf Blitzer (news reporter)
71 - James Patterson (author)
75 - George Benson (musician)
83 - Emmet Walsh (actor)
87 - William Shatner (actor)
88 - Pat Robertson (evangelist)
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Today in Sports History - March 22
1893 - In Northampton, MA, The first women's collegiate basketball game was played at Smith College.
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.
1904 - A patent was issued for a "baseball catcher."
1934 - The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia.
1958 - Kentucky defeats Seattle 84-72 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1964 - Ed Johnston (Boston Bruins) became the last goalie in NHL history to play every minute of every game for an entire season.
1967 - Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing to be inducted into the United States Army.
1969 - UCLA defeated Purdue 92-72 in the finals of the NCAA Tournament to become the first men's college basketball team to win three straight national championships. It was also the fifth title in six years for the Bruins.
1979 - The NHL voted to accept four teams from the World Hockey Association (WHA): Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers and the Quebec Nordiques.
1986 - HBO launches boxing's heavyweight title unification tournament.
1989 - NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years.
1994 - The NFL announced the addition of the two-point conversion. It was the league's first scoring change in 75 seasons.
1996 - Nebraska defeated Fresno State 83-71 in the quarterfinals of the NIT.
2002 - Sergei Zubov (Dallas Stars) got his 400th career assist.
2004 - Hawaii defeated Nebraska 84-83 in the quarterfinals of the NIT.
2004 - Oregon State defeated Nebraska 75-67 in the second round of the WNIT.
2006 - Nebraska defeated Wyoming 72-67 in the second round of the WNIT.
2014 - Nebraska defeated Fresno State 74-55 in the first round of the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1312 - Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering the dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar.
1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
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.
1882 - Congress outlawed polygamy.
1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.
1929 - A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sank a Canadian-registered schooner, the I'm Alone, which was suspected of carrying bootleg liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico.
1933 - During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
1933 - The first German concentration camp was opened at Dachau.
1941 - The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state went into operation.
1945 - The Arab League was formed in Cairo by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
1946 - The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end.
1962 - Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut at age 19 in the musical "I Can Get it For You Wholesale" at the Shubert Theater.
1965 - Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home," his first featuring electric guitar, was released.
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the commander of American forces in Vietnam, would leave that post to become the U.S. Army's new Chief of Staff.
1968 - The first Red Lobster restaurant opened in Lakeland, Florida.
1972 - Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment and sent it to the states to be ratified. The amendment failed to get the required 38 states to ratify it.
1978 - Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1988 - Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
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 teacher Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire of murder-conspiracy.
1993 - Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium processor computer chip.
1995 - Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993.
1997 - The Hale-Bopp comet made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet's next pass is predicted for the year 4397.
2006 - The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain.
2010 - Google announced it would stop censoring search results on its site in China by shifting it from the mainland to Hong Kong.
2012 - Amadou Toumani Toure, the president of Mali, was ousted in a coup.
2013 - Anxious to keep Syria's civil war from spiraling into even worse problems, President Barack Obama said during a visit to Jordan that he worried about the country becoming a haven for extremists when — not if — President Bashar Assad was ousted from power.
Birthdays
20 - Paola Andino (actress)
23 - Nick Robinson (actor)
29 - J.J. Watt (football player)
30 - Tania Raymonde (actress)
32 - Dexter Fowler (baseball player)
33 - James Wolk (actor)
36 - Constance Wu (actress)
37 - Tiffany Dupont (actress)
42 - Reese Witherspoon (actress)
42 - Kellie Williams (actress)
43 - Cole Hauser (actor)
43 - Anne Dudek (actress)
43 - Guillermo Diaz (actor)
47 - Keegan-Michael Key (actor/comedian)
53 - Rick Harrison (reality star)
59 - Matthew Modine (actor)
61 - Stephanie Mills (actress/singer)
63 - Lena Olin (actress)
66 - Bob Costas (sportscaster)
69 - Fanny Ardant (actress)
70 - Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer)
70 - Wolf Blitzer (news reporter)
71 - James Patterson (author)
75 - George Benson (musician)
83 - Emmet Walsh (actor)
87 - William Shatner (actor)
88 - Pat Robertson (evangelist)
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Today in Sports History - March 22
1893 - In Northampton, MA, The first women's collegiate basketball game was played at Smith College.
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.
1904 - A patent was issued for a "baseball catcher."
1934 - The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia.
1958 - Kentucky defeats Seattle 84-72 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1964 - Ed Johnston (Boston Bruins) became the last goalie in NHL history to play every minute of every game for an entire season.
1967 - Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing to be inducted into the United States Army.
1969 - UCLA defeated Purdue 92-72 in the finals of the NCAA Tournament to become the first men's college basketball team to win three straight national championships. It was also the fifth title in six years for the Bruins.
1979 - The NHL voted to accept four teams from the World Hockey Association (WHA): Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers and the Quebec Nordiques.
1986 - HBO launches boxing's heavyweight title unification tournament.
1989 - NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years.
1994 - The NFL announced the addition of the two-point conversion. It was the league's first scoring change in 75 seasons.
1996 - Nebraska defeated Fresno State 83-71 in the quarterfinals of the NIT.
2002 - Sergei Zubov (Dallas Stars) got his 400th career assist.
2004 - Hawaii defeated Nebraska 84-83 in the quarterfinals of the NIT.
2004 - Oregon State defeated Nebraska 75-67 in the second round of the WNIT.
2006 - Nebraska defeated Wyoming 72-67 in the second round of the WNIT.
2014 - Nebraska defeated Fresno State 74-55 in the first round of the NCAA Women's Tournament.
