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March 22 is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in leap years). There are 284 days remaining.

	1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
	1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
	1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
	1765 - The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
	1888 - The Football League is formed.
	1894 - The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
	1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
	1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.
	1943 - World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
	1965 - Bob Dylan "goes electric," releasing his first album featuring electric instruments, Bringing It All Back Home.
	1975 - A fire at the Brown's Ferry nuclear reactor in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
	1979 - Margaret Thatcher puts down an Early Day Motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the Labour government of James Callaghan.
	1984 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
	1997 - Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
	1997 - The comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth.
	2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.
	2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

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