March 22nd
Today in America's Present Past
1622 | Indian Wars: Jamestown Massacre.
1630 | Civil Rights: Boston, Massachusetts prohibits 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 lectures Parliament for peace in America to avert war.
1790 | POTUS: President Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson as America’s first Secretary of State.
1794 | Congress: A ban on U.S. vessels supplying slaves to our nations is enacted.
1812 | Activist Stephen Paul Andrews was born.
1814 | Sculptor Thomas Crawford was born.
1820 | Naval hero Stephen Decatur died.
1861 | First U.S. nursing school chartered.
1865 | Civil War: General Wilson’s raids on Confederate strongholds begin.
1870 | Ohio State University established.
1872 | Civil Rights: Illinois becomes the first state to enact sexual equality employment rights.
1874 | Author Ellen Glasgow was born.
1903 | POTUS: Republican President Roosevelt establishes the Anthracite Coal Commission.
1929 | U.S. Coast Guard sinks a Canadian schooler suspected of carrying liquor.
1930 | Author Stephen Sondheim was born.
1931 | Actor William Shatner was born.
1933 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt signs the Cullen-Harrison Act.
1941 | WWII: Actor James Stewart joins the Army.
1941 | Poet Billy Collins was born.
1947 | Author James Patterson was born.
1948 | Journalist Wolf Blitzer was born.
1957 | SCOTUS: Justice Whittaker is sworn in.
1972 | SCOTUS: The Court decides Eisenstadt v. Baird.
1972 | Congress: Approves 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.