Monday, March 22nd
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On March 22, 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. (Go to article.)
On March 22, 1908, Louis L'Amour, the best-selling American author who wrote more than 100 books, was born. Following his death on June 10, 1988, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
On March 22, 1890, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the American theater. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)
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1765 Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies.
1882 Congress outlawed polygamy.
1894 Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played in Montreal. That city's Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals 3-1.
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 to an invited audience in Paris.
1933 During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
1941 The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state went into operation.
1945 The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt.
1946 The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end.
1963 The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," was released in Great Britain.
1965 Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home," his first featuring electric guitar, was released.
1987 A barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage left Islip, N.Y., on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. The barge was turned away by several states and three countries before space was found back in Islip.
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 instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, N.H., of murder-conspiracy.
1995 Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993.
1997 Tara Lipinski of the United States became the youngest women's world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months.
2004 Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
2006 The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain.
Current Birthdays
Reese Witherspoon turns 34 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini Actress Reese Witherspoon turns 34 years old today.
80 Stephen Sondheim
Composer, lyricist
79 William Shatner
Actor ("Star Trek," "Boston Legal")
76 Orrin Hatch
U.S. senator, R-Utah
75 M. Emmet Walsh
Actor
69 Jeremy Clyde
Singer (Chad and Jeremy)
67 George Benson
Jazz guitarist, singer
63 James Patterson
Author
62 Wolf Blitzer
Broadcast journalist
62 Andrew Lloyd Webber
Composer
58 Bob Costas
Sportscaster
53 Stephanie Mills
R&B singer, actress
51 Matthew Modine
Actor
36 Marcus Camby
Basketball player
35 Cole Hauser
Actor
34 Kellie Williams
Actress
Historic Birthdays
Louis L'Amour
3/22/1908 - 6/10/1988
American best-selling author of more than100 books
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59 Maximilian I
3/22/1459 - 1/12/1519
Austrian archduke, German king and Holy Roman emporer- (1493-1519)
42 Sir Anthony Van Dyck
3/22/1599 - 12/9/1641
Flemish painter, etcher and draftsman
80 Wm. Pulteney Bath
3/22/1684 - 7/7/1764
English Whig politician; opposed Sir Robert Walpole
51 Anton Raphael Mengs
3/22/1728 - 6/29/1779
German painter; leading Neoclassicist
43 Thomas Crawford
3/22/1814 - 10/10/1857
American sculptor of "Freedom" figure on top of the Capitol dome
85 Robert Millikan
3/22/1868 - 12/19/1953
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
67 Arthur Vandenberg
3/22/1884 - 4/18/1951
American Republican senator
67 Joseph Schildkraut
3/22/1896 - 1/21/1964
Austrian-born American stage, television and film star
92 Ruth Page
3/22/1899 - 4/7/1991
American dancer and choreographer
47 Johannes Brinkman
3/22/1902 - 5/6/1949
Dutch architect
82 James Gavin
3/22/1907 - 2/23/1990
American army commander in World War II
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