On this day, March 22

1894 Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal Hockey Club defeated Ottawa Hockey Club, 3-1.

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.

2010 Google Inc. stopped censoring the internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland to Hong Kong.

2012 Coroner’s officials ruled singer Whitney Houston died by drowning, but that heart disease and cocaine use were contributing factors.

2017 A knife-wielding man plowed a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge, killing four people, then stabbed an armed police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament before being shot dead by authorities.

2019 Former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush.

2020 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all nonessential businesses in the state to close and nonessential workers to stay home. Kentucky Republican Rand Paul became the first member of the U.S. Senate to report testing positive for the coronavirus; his announcement led Utah senators Mike Lee and Mitt Romney to place themselves in quarantine.

Today’s birthdays: Actor William Shatner, 93. Actor-singer Jeremy Clyde, 83. Pittsburgh native and singer-guitarist George Benson, 81. Writer James Patterson, 77. CNN newscaster Wolf Blitzer, 76. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, 76. Actor Fanny Ardant, 75. Sportscaster Bob Costas, 72. Country singer James House, 69. Actor Lena Olin, 69. Singer-actor Stephanie Mills, 67.