03-22-2005, 06:09 AM
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Location: Maryland
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March 22nd
1599 ~ Birthday of Anthony van Dyck, Painter.
1638 ~ Anne Hutchinson was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1687 ~ Death of Jean Baptiste Lully, French Composer.
1765 ~ The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, the first direct tax levied from England on the American colonies.
1832 ~ Death of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Writer & Poet.
1923 ~ Birthday of Marcel Marceau, Mime.
1958 ~ Faisal became King of Saudi Arabia
1963 ~ The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, denied improper involvelent with the model Christine Keeler.
1993 ~ The Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chips.
2004 ~ Death (by Israeli Hellfire missile) of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and spiritual leader of Hamas.
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