TODAY IN HISTORY

March 22, 1968

President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the commander of American forces in Vietnam, would leave that post to become the U.S. Army’s new Chief of Staff. Students at the University of Nanterre in suburban Paris occupied the school’s administration building in a prelude to massive protests in France that began the following May.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1312

Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar.

1638

Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.

1765

The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax.

1894

Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1.