TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Tuesday, March 22, the 81st day of 2022. There are 284 days left in the year. On this date in:
1765: The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)
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.
1941: The Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation.
1945: The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt.
1963: The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone.
1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old 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.
1993: Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.
1997: In Lausanne, Switzerland, Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest ladies’ world figure skating champion.
2010: Google Inc. stopped censoring the internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland to Hong Kong.
2019: Special counsel Robert Mueller closed his Russia investigation with no new charges, delivering his final report to Justice Department officials.
2020: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all nonessential businesses in the state to close and nonessential workers to stay home.
2021: A man opened fire at a crowded supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, killing 10 people, including one of the first police officers to respond. (The suspect, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, has so far been found mentally incompetent to stand trial.)