Today is: March 22

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.             Psalm   59:16

March is:

Gardening, Nature, and Ecology Books Month - Read a book about gardening, nature, ecology, botany, agriculture, or biology. Sponsor: Book Marketing Update.

Herb Month in Missouri - Sponsor: Ozark Regional Herb Growers.

March 22 is:

Birthday of the Printed Book - In 1457, the Gutenberg; Bible became the first printed book. Contact; Book Marketing Update.

Carbonated water - invented (1733) - Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water, a basic ingredient in soft drinks.

Cornstarch patented (1841) - Orlando Jones patented cornstarch.

First American Indian treaty (1671) - The Pilgrims and Massasoit agreed on a league of friendship.

First Bed-ln for Peace (1969) - John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their first bed-in for peace at the Amsterdam Hilton.

First Indian massacre (1627) - Powhatan's brother lead a massacre of some settlements near Jamestown, Virginia.

First regional shopping mall opens (1954) - The mall opened in Southfield, Michigan.

National Goof-off Day - This is a day for silliness and fun. Sponsor: Monica Dufour

Polygamy banned in the U.S. (1887) - Congress passed a law banning polygamy.

World Day for Water - This day shows how developing water resources can affect social well-being and economic productivity. Sponsor: United Nations.

Born on this Day

• 1459: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
  

• 1599: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, artist
  

• 1797: Kaiser Wilhelm I, German Emperor (1871-88)
  

• 1819: Brig. Gen. William Wirt Adams, Organized First Miss. Cavalry
  

• 1846: Randolph Caldecott, illustrater
  

• 1887: Comedian Chico Marx was born. The Marx Brothers got their name from a comic strip called "Mager's Monks."
  

• 1907: James Gavin, U.S. Army General
  

• 1908: Louis L'Amour, American author Trailing Louis L'Amour in New Mexico.
  

• 1912: Actor Karl Malden
  

• 1920: Actor Werner Klemperer, (Col. Klink of "Hogan's Heroes")
  

• 1923: French mime Marcel Marceau.
  

• 1924: "USA Today" founder Allen H. Neuharth
  

• 1930: Composer Stephen Sondheim
  

• 1930: Former president of Harvard University, Derek Bok
  

• 1931: Actor William Shatner
  

• 1934: Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican, Utah)
  

• 1935: Actor M. Emmet Walsh
  

• 1936: Actress May Britt
  

• 1942: Actress Barbara Parkins (Peyton Place)
  

• 1943: Singer-guitarist George Benson
  

• 1944: Singer Jeremy Clyde (Chad and Jeremy)
  

• 1948: British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
  

• 1949: Actress Fanny Ardant
  

• 1952: Sportscaster Bob Costas
  

• 1955: Actress Lena Olin
  

• 1957: Singer-actress Stephanie Mills
  

• 1959: Actor Matthew Modine
  

• 1976: Actress Kellie Williams ("Family Matters")
  

• 1976: Actress Reese Witherspoon         
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0752: Death of St. Zacharius, Pope
  

• 1221: Coronation of Robert of Courtenay as King of Rumania
  

• 1312: Burning of Jacques De Molay, Grand Master of the Templars
  

• 1471: Death of George Podiebrad, King of Bohemia
  

• 1556: Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
  

• 1594: Surrender of Paris to King Henry IV of France
  

• 1595: Sir Walter Raleigh burns the town of San Joseph in Trinidad
  

• 1617: Death of Pocahontas at Gravesend, England
  

• 1621: Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship. This treaty is made by Plymouth Colony with the Indians , and is kept, by both sides, for 50 years
  

• 1622: 1st Indian massacre of Europeans, Jamestown, Va.; 347 slain
  

• 1630: Massachusetts outlaws all cards, dice & gambling equipment
  

• 1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  

• 1639: Thomas Carew, English poet, dies at about 41
  

• 1641: The opening of the Trial of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
  

• 1733: Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
  

• 1765: Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act was repealed the following year.)
  

• 1791: Congress enacted legislation forbidding slave trading with foreign nations.
  

• 1820: US naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington DC.
  

• 1841: Englishman Orlando Jones patented corn starch.
  

• 1882: Congress outlawed polygamy.
  

• 1893: The first women's collegiate basketball game was played at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
  

• 1894: Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played; the home team Montreal Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals, 3-to-1.
  

• 1895: Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris; this is generally regarded as the first-ever public display of a movie projected onto a screen.
  

• 1901: Japan proclaims that it is dertermined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.
  

• 1902: Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph.
  

• 1904: The first color photograph is published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.
  

• 1907: Russians complete the evacuation of Manchuria.
  

• 1915: A German Zepplin makes a night raid on Paris railway stations.
  

• 1917: The U.S. becomes the first to recognize the Kerensky Government in Russia.
  

• 1928: Peasants in the Soviet Union protest food shortages there.
  

• 1929: A U.S. Coast Guard vessel sank a Canadian-registered schooner, the "I'm Alone," in the Guld of Mexico. (The schooner was suspected of carrying bootleg liquor.)
  

• 1933: During Prohibition, President Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to three-point-two percent alcohol legal.
  

• 1935: Persia is renamed Iran.
  

• 1935: The first High Definition Television service was officially inaugurated by the director-general of German broadcasting in Berlin.
  

• 1941: The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River began producing electric power for the Pacific Northwest.
  

• 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.
  

• 1946: First U.S. built rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere reaches a 50-mile height.
  

• 1946: Britain signs a treaty granting independence to Jordan.
  

• 1951: William Mengelberg died in Switzerland, he was 79. Mengelberg led the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam for generations, but died in exile from his orchestra after collaborating with the Nazis.
  

• 1962: Barbra Streisand, then 19-years-old, opened on Broadway as Miss Marmelstein in "I Can Get For You Wholesale." A year later she married her co-star Elliott Gould.
  

• 1963: The Beatles' first LP "Please Me," was released in Britain. It included such hits as the title track, "Love Me Do," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Do You Want To Know a Secret?" and "Twist and Shout."
  

• 1967: Muhammad Ali KO'd Zora Foley in New York. This was his last fight before being stripped of his title for avoiding the military draft.
  

• 1968: President Lyndon Johnson names General Westmoreland as Army Chief of Staff.
  

• 1972: Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. (It fell short of the two-thirds approval needed.)
  

• 1977: Indira Gandhi resigned as prime minister of India.
  

• 1977: President Carter proposes the abolition of the Electoral College.
  

• 1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  

• 1979: Sir Richard Sykes, Britain's Ambassador to the Netherlands, was shot and killed by Irish terrorists in the Hague.
  

• 1981: First Class Postage raised to 18 cents from 15 cents.
  

• 1981: RCA put its "Selectra Vision" laser disc players on the market. Soon, the product was called "the Edsel of the entertainment field." The unit cost $500 and the videodisks about $15 each. The product did not sell.
  

• 1983: Israel's Knesset chose Chaim Herzog of the opposition Labor Party to be the next president of Israel, in a rebuff to Prime Minister Menachem Begin's governing coalition.
  

• 1985: French diplomats Marcel Fontaine and Marcel Carton were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim extremists. (They were freed in May 1988.)
  

• 1986: World financier Michele Sindona died two days after ingesting cyanide in his Italian prison cell in what authorities later ruled a suicide.
  

• 1987: Chad troops drove Libyan forces from a key airstrip in northern Chad, apparently ending Moammar Gadhafi's seven-year occupation. The Libyans abandoned $500 million worth of Soviet-made tanks and airplanes.
  

• 1987: A garbage barge, carrying 3200 tons of refuse, left Islip, New York, on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. (The barge was turned away by several states and three other countries until space was found back in Islip.)
  

• 1988: Both houses of Congress overrode President Reagan's veto of a sweeping civil rights bill. The bill forbade discrimination by institutions, government agencies and some corporations that received any federal aid.
  

• 1989: National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced plans to retire.
  

• 1989: Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former secretary, began two days of testimony at North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington.
  

• 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 negligent discharge of oil.
  

• 1991: A U.S. warplane shot down a second Iraqi jet fighter that had violated the cease-fire ending the Persian Guld War.
  

• 1991: High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of murder-conspiracy.
  

• 1992: France's governing Socialist Party was rebuffed in regional elections.
  

• 1992: President George Bush and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wrapped up a weekend of informal talks by reiterating their resolve to break a deadlock on global trade talks.
  

• 1992: Twenty-seven people were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed on takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport; 24 people survived.
  

• 1993: The launch of the space shuttle "Columbia" was scrubbed with three seconds left in the countdown.
  

• 1993: Cleveland Indians pitchers Steve Olin and Tim Crews were killed when the boat they were riding in slammed into a Florida pier; pitcher Bob Ojeda was seriously injured.
  

• 1993: The Montreal Symphony performed one of the week's most eclectic concerts: "O Java," a new work by Evangelista; Debussy's "Iberia"; The Beethoven First Piano Concerto with Martha Argerich; and "The Peacock" by Zoltan Kodaly.
  

• 1994: The Federal Reserve announced it was raising short-term interest rates from 3.25 to 3.5 percent, the second such boost of the year.
  

• 1994: "Woody Woodpecker" creator Walter Lantz died in Burbank, California, at age 93.
  

• 1995: Shouting erupted in the U.S. House of Representatives as Democrats bitterly accused majority Republicans of trying to ram through a "mean-spirited" welfare overhaul bill.
  

• 1995: Convicted Long Island Rail Road gunman Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people.
  

• 1995: Shouting erupted in the U.S. House of Representatives as Democrats bitterly accused majority Republicans of trying to ram through a mean-spirited welfare overhaul bill.
  

• 1996: Gunmen massacred 11 people in a political attack in South Africa's Zulu heartland, hours after President Nelson Mandela visited the province.
  

• 1996: The shuttle "Atlantis," carrying astronaut Shannon Lucid to a rendezvous with the Russian space station "Mir," blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  

• 1997: A day after a suicide bomber killed three women in Tel Aviv, Israeli troops clashed with hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron.
  

• 1997: Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and ten months, became the youngest women's world figure skating champion.
  

• 1998: President Clinton departed Washington for a historic 12-day tour of Africa. The official delegation of 68 people, including Clinton and his wife Hillary and a congressional and citizens delegation including another 40 people visited six countries - Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Botswana and Senegal.
  

• 1998: A deeply divided United Auto Workers union approved a new contract with Caterpillar Incorporated, ending a six-and-a-half-year contract battle.
  

• 1998: Eleven young campers died in a mountain cabin fire in Centre County, Pennsylvania. The fire started after a gas heater exploded inside the cabin on Madisonburg Mountain.
  

• 1998: Hundreds of thousands of people welcomed Pope John Paul at an airstrip near a town in southeast Nigeria where he would beatify ascetic monk Cyprian Tansi. 
  

• 1999: Acting as his own lawyer, Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial on murder charges for the first time, telling a jury in Pontiac, Mich., he was merely carrying out his professional duty in a videotaped assisted death shown on "60 Minutes." (Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder.)
  
  

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