History Events on March 22
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History Events on March 22
USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
#USAir_Flight_405
In 1992
Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
#Karl_Wallenda
In 1978
World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
#Khatyn_massacre
In 1943
Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
#Nader_Shah
In 1739
A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
#2017_Westminster_attack
In 2017
Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
#Ferdinand_II_of_Aragon
In 1508
The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
#Parliament_of_Great_Britain
In 1765
Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
#Arthur_Leonard_Schawlow
In 1960
Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
#Indian_massacre_of_1622
In 1622
Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
#Tara_Lipinski
In 1997
The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
#Massachusetts_Bay_Colony
In 1630
The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
#Emerald_Buddha
In 1784
At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
#2013_Thailand_refugee_camp_fire
In 2013
Two buses crashes in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra killing at least 50 people.
#Ghana
In 2019
The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
#Emperor_of_China
In 1916
Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
#Fall_of_communism_in_Albania
In 1992
The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
#Equal_Rights_Amendment
In 1972
Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
#Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic
In 1920
In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
#North_Carolina
In 1871
NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
#NASA
In 1982
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