DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Wednesday, March 22, the 81st day of 2023. 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 (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)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: Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest ladies’ world figure skating champion in Lausanne, Switzerland.
2010: Google Inc. stopped censoring the internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland to Hong Kong.
2013: The Internal Revenue Service said it was a mistake for employees to have made a $60,000 six-minute training video spoofing “Star Trek” and “Gilligan’s Island.”
2019: Special counsel Robert Mueller closed his Russia investigation with no new charges, delivering his final report to Justice Department officials. 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.
Actor William Shatner is 92. Singerguitarist George Benson is 80. News anchor Wolf Blitzer is 75. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 75. Actor Fanny Ardant is 74. Sportscaster Bob Costas is 71. Actor Matthew Modine is 64. Comedian
Keegan-michael Key
(Key and Peele) is 52. Actor Will Yun Lee (“Hawaii Five-0”) is 52. Actor
Anne Dudek (“Mad Men”) is 48. Actor Cole Hauser (TV’S “Yellowstone”) is 48. Actor Kellie Williams
(“Family Matters”) is 47. Actor Reese Witherspoon is 47. Drummer John Otto of Limp Bizkit is 46. Actor Tiffany Dupont (“Murder in the First”) is 42. Rapper Mims is 42. Actor Constance Wu (film’s “Crazy Rich Asians,” TV’S “Fresh Off The Boat”) is 41.