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Friday, March 22, 2013

This was 81st day of the year and 284 days remained in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 11 Nisan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 11th day of the 2nd month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

March 22 Birthdays

Anthony Van Dyck
Pronunciation: [both: van dIk]
1599–1641, Flemish portrait and religious painter and etcher, born in Antwerp.

Bienvenido Santos
novelist, poet, activist (1911)

Marcel Marceau
mime (1923)

Pat Robertson
evangelist and politician (1930)

Stephen Sondheim
composer (1930)

Andrew Lloyd Webber
composer (1948)

Reese Witherspoon
actress (1976)

March 2013

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March 22 in History

1765

The Stamp Act was enacted on the American colonies by Britain.

1820

U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with dishonored former Chesapeake captain James Barron.

1894

The first Stanley Cup championship game was played. The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association (which won the cup unchallenged the previous year) triumphed over the Ottawa Capitals.

1895

Auguste and Louis Lumiere first demonstrated motion pictures using celluloid film in Paris.

1945

The Arab League was formed in Cairo, by Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

1972

Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment and sent it to be ratified by the states. The amendment would fail to get the required 38 states to ratify it.

1997

Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth in the skies over the northern hemisphere. The comet’s next pass is predicted for the year 4397.

2012

Amadou Toumani Touré, The President of Mali, was ousted in a coup d'état.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.