Today in History for 22nd March 2022

Historical Events

1903 - NY Highlanders (Yankees) tickets 1st go on sale
1927 - Federico Garcia Lorca's first play "El Maleficio" (The Butterfly's Evil Spell) premieres in Madrid
1944 - American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
1968 - Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1978 - Karl "The Great" Wallenda, German acrobat (The Flying Wallendas) dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at 73
2019 - "Mind-blowing" discovery announced of 518 million year old fossil site in near Danshui river, Hubei province, China, with thousands of unknown fossils well preserved

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Famous Birthdays

1885 - Jēkabs Mediņš, Latvian composer, born in Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia) (d. 1971)
1918 - Tauno Pylkkanen, Finnish opera composer, born in Helsinki, Finland(d. 1980)
1947 - James Patterson, American author (Alex Cross, Witch and Wizard), born in Newburgh, New York
1959 - Avraham Fried [Friedman], Orthodox Jewish Musician, born in Brooklyn, New York
1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer and coach, born in Antwerp, Belgium
1989 - J. J. Watt [Justin James], American NFL player (Houston Texans), born in Waukesha, Wisconsin

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Famous Deaths

1838 - Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73
1913 - Song Jiaoran, Chinese Nationalist and revolutionary (Leader of Kuomintang party 1912-13), assassinated at 30
1977 - Hymie Shertzer, American jazz and session saxophonist (Benny Goodman; NBC's Tonight Show), dies at 67
1996 - Ron Hayward, English politician, General Secretary of the Labour Party, dies at 78
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
2009 - Leon Walker, Wakefield Wildcats Rugby Player (b. 1988)

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