March 22
1765 - Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies.
1820 - U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron.
1882 - Congress outlawed polygamy.
1895 - In what is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie -- the one-minute "Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory" -- to an invited audience in Paris.
1941 - The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington went into operation.
1945 - The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. Members were Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
1946 - The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end.
1962 - Barbara 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 an electric guitar, was released.
1972 - Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. It fell short of the three-fourths approval needed.
1990 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major crimes in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but still convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil.
1991 - High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in New Hampshire of murder-conspiracy.
1993 - Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer processor.
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 closet 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.
Birthdays
26 - J.J. Watt (football player)
39 - Reese Witherspoon (actress)
43 - Elvis Stojko (figure skater)
50 - Rick Harrison (reality TV star)
56 - Matthew Modine (actor)
58 - Stephanie Mills (R&B singer)
63 - Bob Costas (sportscaster)
67 - Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer/playwright)
67 - Wolf Blitzer (journalist)
68 - James Patterson (author)
84 - William Shatner (actor)
85 - Pat Robertson (entrepreneur)
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Today in Sports History - March 22
1894 - Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played in Montreal. That city's Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals 3-1.
1934 - The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia.
1967 - Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing to be inducted into the United States Army.
1969 - UCLA routed Purdue 92-72 to become the first team to win three straight NCAA Tournaments.
1972 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was named NBA MVP.
1979 - The NHL voted to accept four teams from the World Hockey Association (WHA), the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and the Hartford Whalers.
1994 - The NFL announced its first scoring change in 75 years by adding the two-point conversion to the game.
1996 - Nebraska defeated Fresno State 83-71 in the quarterfinals of the NIT.
1997 - Tara Lipinski of the United States became the youngest women's world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months.
2004 - Nebraska lost to Hawaii 83-84 in the quarterfinals of the NIT.
2005 - Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt won her 880th game, surpassing Dean Smith to become the NCAA's all-time wins leader.
2013 - Two big upsets took place in the NCAA Tournament as 15-seed Florida Gulf Coast defeated second-seed Georgetown 78-68 and 13-seed LaSalle defeated 4-seed Kansas State 63-61.
2013 - San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich won his 900th career game.
2014 - Baylor defeated Nebraska 74-60 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
1765 - Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies.
1820 - U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron.
1882 - Congress outlawed polygamy.
1895 - In what is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie -- the one-minute "Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory" -- to an invited audience in Paris.
1941 - The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington went into operation.
1945 - The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. Members were Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
1946 - The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end.
1962 - Barbara 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 an electric guitar, was released.
1972 - Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. It fell short of the three-fourths approval needed.
1990 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major crimes in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but still convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil.
1991 - High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in New Hampshire of murder-conspiracy.
1993 - Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer processor.
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 closet 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.
Birthdays
26 - J.J. Watt (football player)
39 - Reese Witherspoon (actress)
43 - Elvis Stojko (figure skater)
50 - Rick Harrison (reality TV star)
56 - Matthew Modine (actor)
58 - Stephanie Mills (R&B singer)
63 - Bob Costas (sportscaster)
67 - Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer/playwright)
67 - Wolf Blitzer (journalist)
68 - James Patterson (author)
84 - William Shatner (actor)
85 - Pat Robertson (entrepreneur)
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Today in Sports History - March 22
1894 - Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played in Montreal. That city's Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals 3-1.
1934 - The first Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia.
1967 - Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title for refusing to be inducted into the United States Army.
1969 - UCLA routed Purdue 92-72 to become the first team to win three straight NCAA Tournaments.
1972 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was named NBA MVP.
1979 - The NHL voted to accept four teams from the World Hockey Association (WHA), the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and the Hartford Whalers.
1994 - The NFL announced its first scoring change in 75 years by adding the two-point conversion to the game.
1996 - Nebraska defeated Fresno State 83-71 in the quarterfinals of the NIT.
1997 - Tara Lipinski of the United States became the youngest women's world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months.
2004 - Nebraska lost to Hawaii 83-84 in the quarterfinals of the NIT.
2005 - Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt won her 880th game, surpassing Dean Smith to become the NCAA's all-time wins leader.
2013 - Two big upsets took place in the NCAA Tournament as 15-seed Florida Gulf Coast defeated second-seed Georgetown 78-68 and 13-seed LaSalle defeated 4-seed Kansas State 63-61.
2013 - San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich won his 900th career game.
2014 - Baylor defeated Nebraska 74-60 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
