Updated March 21, 2012, 2:28 pm
On March 22, 1972, Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. It fell short of the three-fourths approval needed.
On March 22, 1908, Louis L’Amour, the best-selling American author who wrote more than 100 books, was born. Following his death on June 10, 1988, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1765 Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies. 1882 Congress outlawed polygamy. 1894 Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played in Montreal. That city’s Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals 3-1. 1941 The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state went into operation. 1945 The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. 1946 The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end. 1962 Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut at age 19 in the musical “I Can Get it For You Wholesale” at the Shubert Theater. 1963 The Beatles’ first album, “Please Please Me,” was released in Great Britain. 1965 Bob Dylan’s album “Bringing It All Back Home,” his first featuring electric guitar, was released. 1972 Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. 1990 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil. 1991 High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, N.H., of murder-conspiracy. 1995 Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993. 1997 Tara Lipinski of the United States became the youngest women’s world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months. 2006 The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain. 2010 Google announced it would stop censoring search results on its site in China by shifting it from the mainland to Hong Kong. Current Birthdays
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Actress Reese Witherspoon turns 36 years old today.
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Actor William Shatner turns 81 years old today.
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1930 Stephen Sondheim, Composer, lyricist, turns 82 1934 Orrin Hatch, U.S. senator, R-Utah, turns 78 1935 M. Emmet Walsh, Actor, turns 77 1941 Jeremy Clyde, Singer (Chad and Jeremy), turns 71 1943 George Benson, Jazz guitarist, singer, turns 69 1947 James Patterson, Author, turns 65 1948 Wolf Blitzer, Broadcast journalist, turns 64 1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer, turns 64 1952 Bob Costas, Sportscaster, turns 60 1955 Lena Olin, Actress, turns 57 1957 Stephanie Mills, R&B singer, actress, turns 55 1959 Matthew Modine, Actor, turns 53 1975 Cole Hauser, Actor, turns 37 1976 Kellie Williams, Actress, turns 36 1987 Ike Davis, Baseball player, turns 25
Historic Birthdays
Louis L’Amour 3/22/1908 – 6/10/1988 American best-selling author of more than100 books.Go to obituary »
59 Maximilian I 3/22/1459 – 1/12/1519
Austrian archduke, German king and Holy Roman emporer- (1493-1519)42 Sir Anthony Van Dyck 3/22/1599 – 12/9/1641
Flemish painter, etcher and draftsman80 Wm. Pulteney Bath 3/22/1684 – 7/7/1764
English Whig politician; opposed Sir Robert Walpole51 Anton Raphael Mengs 3/22/1728 – 6/29/1779
German painter; leading Neoclassicist43 Thomas Crawford 3/22/1814 – 10/10/1857
American sculptor of “Freedom” figure on top of the Capitol dome85 Robert Millikan 3/22/1868 – 12/19/1953
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist67 Arthur Vandenberg 3/22/1884 – 4/18/1951
American Republican senator67 Joseph Schildkraut 3/22/1896 – 1/21/1964
Austrian-born American stage, television and film star92 Ruth Page 3/22/1899 – 4/7/1991
American dancer and choreographer47 Johannes Brinkman 3/22/1902 – 5/6/1949
Dutch architect82 James Gavin 3/22/1907 – 2/23/1990
American army commander in World War II
