TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

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.

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.

1929

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sank a Canadian-registered schooner, the I’m Alone, which was suspected of carrying bootleg liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico.

1933

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

1988

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

2008

Vice President Dick Cheney, visiting the Middle East, said the U.S. had an “enduring and unshakable” commitment to Israel’s security and its right to defend itself against those bent on destroying the Jewish state.