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Today in History: March 22

1622 Indians attack a group of colonists in the James River area of Virginia, killing 350 residents.

1765 The Stamp Act is passed, the first direct British tax on the American colonists.

1919 The first international airline service is inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.

1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill legalizing the sale and possession of beer and wine.

1935 Persia is renamed Iran.

1946 First U.S. built rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere reaches a 50-mile height.

1968 President Lyndon Johnson names General William Westmoreland as Army Chief of Staff.

1972 The U.S. Senate passes the Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment fails to achieve ratification.

1990 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, finds Captain Hazelwood not guilty in the Valdez oil spill.


Born on March 22

1908 Louis L'Amour, American Western novelist.

1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats)

JOTD
3 guys end up at the pearly gates...

St. Peter asks the first guy if/how many times he had cheated on his wife. He answers twice. St. Peter says, “Shame on you,” and hands him the keys to a Honda Civic. The second guy gets asked the same question and he responds once. St. Peter says, “Shame on you,” and hands him the keys to a Harley Davidson. The third guy gets asked the same question as the first two people and responds never. St. Peter says, “Good job staying faithful,” and hands him the keys to a Rolls Royce. A little while later while riding the streets of Heaven the first guy in the Honda Civic rolls by the third guy in the Rolls Royce. The first guy notices the third guy crying and asks, “Why are you crying, you are enjoying your after life in a Rolls Royce, while I am stuck in a Honda Civic.” The third guy responds, “I am crying because I saw my wife, she was on a skateboard.”