In the present day is Saturday, March 22, the 81st day of 2024. There are 284 days left within the 12 months.
In the present day in historical past:
On March 22, 1963, The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was launched in the UK on the Parlophone file label.
Additionally on this date:
In 1765, the British Parliament handed the Stamp Act to lift cash from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a 12 months later.)
In 1894, ice hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship recreation was performed, during which the Montreal Hockey Membership defeated the Ottawa Hockey Membership, 3-1.
In 1933, in the course of the Prohibition Period, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which allowed the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol content material of three.2%. (Prohibition can be absolutely repealed 9 months later with the ratification of the twenty first Modification.)
In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state formally went into operation; it stays the biggest capability energy station in the USA.
In 1945, the Arab League was fashioned with the adoption of a constitution in Cairo, Egypt.
In 1972, within the Eisenstadt vs. Baird determination, the U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated that single individuals had the identical proper to own and use contraception as did married individuals.
In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his dying whereas trying to stroll a cable strung between two resort towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 1993, Intel Corp. unveiled the unique Pentium laptop chip.
In 2019, former President Jimmy Carter turned the longest-living chief government in American historical past; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush. (Carter would die at age 100 in December 2024.)
In 2021, 10 individuals have been killed in a mass capturing at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. (The shooter, Ahmad Alissa, was sentenced to life in jail with out parole in September 2024.)
In the present day’s Birthdays:
- Artist Yayoi Kusama is 96.
- Actor William Shatner is 94.
- Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins is 84.
- Musician George Benson is 82.
- Author James Patterson is 78.
- TV journalist Wolf Blitzer is 77.
- Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 77.
- Sportscaster Bob Costas is 73.
- Actor Lena Olin is 70.
- Singer-actor Stephanie Mills is 68.
- Actor Matthew Modine is 66.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Jim Covert is 65.
- Actor-comedian Keegan-Michael Secret’s 54.
- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is 52.
- Actor Reese Witherspoon is 49.
- Actor Constance Wu is 43.
- Former NFL defensive finish J.J. Watt is 36.