On This Day for March 22 - Murder at Jamestown, Yayoi Kusama is featured, and more

Created: 2020-03-22 10:03 Updated: 2020-03-22 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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March 22

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1929

Yayoi Kusama

FEATURED EVENT

1622

Murder at Jamestown

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2019: Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the attorney general, William Barr ; it stated that “while this report does not conclude that the President [ Donald Trump] committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” [ Take our U.S. political scandals quiz .]

2004: An Israeli missile strike killed Palestinian Islamist leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, cofounder (1987) of the militant Palestinian organization Hamas.

1972: The U.S. Senate approved the Equal Rights Amendment—which stated, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”—but it failed to be ratified by the requisite majority of 38 states before the deadline. [ Test your knowledge of U.S. amendments .]

1948: English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose works such as Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, and The Phantom of the Opera helped revitalize British and American musical theatre in the late 20th century, was born. [ Take our history of theatre quiz .]

1945: The Arab League, a regional organization of Arab states in the Middle East, was organized in Cairo by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan (now Jordan), Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about the Middle East .]

1908: American author Louis L'Amour, who was best known for highly popular westerns that offered well-researched portrayals of frontier life, was born. [ How much do you know about the stories and the authors of the classics you love? ]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1976

Reese Witherspoon
American actress

1931

William Shatner
Canadian actor

1948

Andrew Lloyd Webber
British composer

1930

Stephen Sondheim
American composer and lyricist

1947

James Patterson
American author