TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Thursday, March 22, the 81th day of 2018. There are 284 days left in the year.
1622 Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War. 1638 Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1765 The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies. 1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. 1829 In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers ( United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1849 The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara. 1872 Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
1873 The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
1894 The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
1906 The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris 1916 The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored. 1939 Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1945 The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt. 1960 Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser 1972 The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. 1978 Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight- rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1982 NASA's Space Shuttle
Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS- 3. 1993 The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips
( 80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. 1995 Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. 2004 Ahmed Yassin, cofounder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles. 2006 Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U. S. 2013.