1822<\/strong> – New York Horticultural Society was founded.<\/p>\n 1841<\/strong> – Englishman Orlando Jones patented cornstarch.<\/p>\n 1871<\/strong> – William Holden of North Carolina became the first governor to be removed by impeachment.<\/p>\n 1872<\/strong> – Illinois became the first state to require sexual equality in employment.<\/p>\n 1873<\/strong> – Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n 1874<\/strong> – The Young Men’s Hebrew Association was organized in New York City.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was founded by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – U.S. Postage rates went from 15-cents to 18-cents an ounce.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – RCA put its Selectra Vision laser disc players on the market.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – A group of twelve Green Berets arrived in El Salvador. This brought the total number of advisors to fifty-four.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The first Mongolian entered space aboard the Russian Soyuz 39.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – The Space Shuttle Columbia was launched into orbit on mission STS-3. It was the third orbital flight for the Columbia.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – A barge loaded with 32,000 tons of refuse left Islip, NY, to find a place to unload. After being refused by several states and three countries space was found back in Islip.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The Congress overrode U.S. President Reagan’s veto of a sweeping civil rights bill.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Oliver North began two days of testimony at his Iran-Contra trial in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee reported the class gap was widening.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found Captain Hazelwood not guilty in the Valdez oil spill.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Pamela Smart, a high school teacher, was found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – A Fokker F-28 veered off a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport and into Flushing Bay, killing 27 people.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Cleveland Indians pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews were killed in a boating accident in Florida. Bob Ojeda was seriously injured in the accident.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Intel introduced the Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned to Earth after setting a record for 438 days in space.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Tara Lipinski, at 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest women’s world figure skating champion.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – The U.S. Postal Rate Commission approved a request for a postal rate increase of first-class stamps from 34 cents to 37 cents by June 30. It was the first time a postal rate case was resolved through a settlement between various groups. The groups included the U.S. Postal Service, postal employees, mailer groups and competitors.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – A collection of letters and cards sent by Princess Diana of Wales sold for $33,000. The letters and cards were written to a former housekeeper at Diana’s teenage home.<\/p>\n 2004 <\/strong>\u2013 Ahmed Yassin, co-founder, and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.<\/p>\n 2006 <\/strong>\u2013 Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.<\/p>\n 2013 <\/strong>\u2013 At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.<\/p>\n 2016 <\/strong>\u2013 Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek\/Maalbeek metro station.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong> \u2013 A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.<\/p>\n 2019 <\/strong>– Robert S. Mueller III delivers his report on the Russian government’s influence on the election of Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong> \u2013 Two buses crash in Kitano, a town north of Ghana’s capital Accra killing at least 50 people. <\/sup><\/p>\n History of 22 march 1822 – New York Horticultural Society was founded. 1841 – Englishman Orlando Jones patented cornstarch. 1871 – William Holden of North Carolina became the first governor to be removed by impeachment. 1872 – Illinois became the first state to require sexual equality in employment. 1873 – Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico. 1874 – The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[676,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-22-march","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-13y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23462,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/23462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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