March 22
Today in America's Present Past
1622 | Indian Wars: Jamestown Massacre. The Powhatan Confederacy slaughtering one-third of(347) the English settlers.
1630 | Civil Rights: Boston, Massachusetts prohibited gambling.
1638 | Civil Rights: Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts for religious dissent.
1758 | Cleric Jonathan Edwards died.
1765 | The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act taxing Americans.
1775 | British Edmund Burke lectured Parliament for peace in America to avert war.
1790 | POTUS: Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as America’s first Secretary of State under George Washington.
1794 | Congress: A ban on U.S. vessels supplying slaves was enacted.
1812 | Activist Stephen Paul Andrews was born.
1814 | Sculptor Thomas Crawford was born.
1820 | Naval hero Stephen Decatur died in a duel with Commodore James Barron.
1861 | First U.S. nursing school was chartered.
1865 | Civil War: General Wilson’s raids on Confederate strongholds begin.
1870 | Ohio State University was established.
1872 | Civil Rights: Illinois became the first state to enact sexual equality employment rights.
1874 | Author Ellen Glasgow was born.
1903 | POTUS: Republican President Roosevelt established the Anthracite Coal Commission.
1929 | U.S. Coast Guard sunk a Canadian schooner “I’m Alone” suspected of carrying liquor in the Gulf of America.
1930 | Author Stephen Sondheim was born.
1931 | Actor William Shatner was born.
1933 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act. This permitted the sale of beer and low-alcohol beverages, signaling the beginning of the end of Prohibition.
1941 | WWII: Actor James Stewart joined the Army.
1941 | Poet Billy Collins was born.
1947 | Author James Patterson was born.
1948 | Journalist Wolf Blitzer was born.
1957 | SCOTUS: Justice Whittaker was sworn in.
1972 | SCOTUS: The Court decided Eisenstadt v. Baird.
1972 | Congress: Approved the Equal Rights Amendment.
1976 | Actress Reese Witherspoon was born.
1994 | Entertainer Dan Hartman died.
2001 | Animator William Hanna died.
2018 | Entrepreneur Wayne Huizenga died.