March 22 is National Water Day
Birthday of Sir Anthony VanDyck (1599), Flemish painter. The Van Dyke beard is named after him. Examples of his work can be viewed at Wiki-Art
The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony signed a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags on March 22, 1621.
Jamestown massacre : March 22, 1622: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables in 1630.
Anne Hutchinson was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent on March 22, 1638.
Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water (seltzer) in 1733. English theologian, clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and Liberal political theorist who published over 150 works, he is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state.
1765 – The Stamp Act was passed. It was the first direct British tax on the American colonists. It was repealed on March 17, 1766.
1871 – Republican William Woods Holden of North Carolina became second governor in American history to be impeached, and the first to be removed from office. As governor, Holden appointed George Kirk to stop the Ku Klux Klan. Many prominent citizens were arrested. Following the election of 1870, the Democrats took over the House of Representatives in North Carolina and impeached Holden.
1882 – The U.S. Congress outlawed polygamy.
Grand Coulee Dam in Washington went into operation in 1941.
1903 – Niagara Falls ran out of water (on the U.S. side) due to a drought. Pictures
1935 – Persia was renamed Iran.
On this day in 1972 the United States Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It failed to receive the requisite number of ratifications (38), receiving only 35 before the deadline mandated by Congress so was not adopted. Five ratifications were later rescinded. Twenty-one states have a version of the ERA in their state constitutions.
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.