TODAY IN HISTORY

March 22, 1765

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

1882

President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.

1894

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

1933

During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.

1941

The Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation.

1963

The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone.

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. The first Red Lobster restaurant opened in Lakeland, Florida.

1978

Karl Wallenda, the 73-yearold patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1988

Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.

1997

Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and ten months, became the youngest ladies’ world figure skating champion in Lausanne, Switzerland.