March 22 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 22
In the headlines today:

2005	Foghat lead guitarist Rod Price, 57, dies of a heart attack at his Wilton, New Hampshire home. (photo credit: Rhino / WEA)
1991	A second Iraqi jet fighter plane is shot down for violating the Gulf War cease-fire.
1978	Seventy-three-year-old Karl Wallenda falls to his death while attempting to walk a high wire between two hotels in San Juan, PR.
1945	The League of Arab States is chartered in Cairo, Egypt.
1941	Washington state's Grand Coulee Dam starts operating.
1929	The Western Meadowlark is adopted as the state bird of Nebraska.
1913	The Missouri state flag is adopted.
1903	Niagara Falls slows to a trickle due to a severe drought. (photo credit: Hemera)
1903	The Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent Island erupts.
1895	Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere exhibit their motion-picture projector in Paris.
1882	The US Congress makes polygamy illegal.
1873	Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico.
1861	The first US nursing school is chartered in Philadelphia.
1794	Congress passes an act prohibiting US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries.
1622	The first recorded massacre of caucasians by Indians occurs when 350 white settlers are killed in Virginia.