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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.

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

1935
Persia is renamed Iran.

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.

1993
Intel officially introduces the "Pentium" processor chip, for IBM compatibles. The 60 MHz Pentium could process 100 million instructions per second (MIPS) and was approximately 300 times faster than the 4.77 MHz 8088 in the original IBM PC that could only process 0.33 MIPS.
The name Pentium was derived from the prefix "pent", referring to the fifth generation of x86 and the suffix "ium" denoting it as a fundamental element of a computer.

1997
Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth

2020
India puts 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19

2021
Evanston, Illinois, votes to become first US city to pay reparations to Black residents for past discriminations and effects of slavery, giving $400,000 to each household

Today in History: Born on March 22

1908 Louis L'Amour, American Western novelist.

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

1931 William Shatner (92nd Birthday)Canadian author, director and actor (Star Trek; T J Hooker), born in Montreal, Quebec

2020 India puts 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19

2021 Evanston, Illinois, votes to become first US city to pay reparations to Black residents for past discriminations and effects of slavery, giving $400,000 to each household

Joke of the Day
A was man drowning his sorrows at the bar. A beautiful woman sat down beside him and asked, “What is wrong?”

He said: “My wife just left me because I am too kinky in bed.”

The lady gasped, “My husband left me for the same reason!”

A few drinks later, they end up at her place and she says: “I’m going to the bathroom to change into something ‘more comfortable.’

Ten minutes later, she comes out, dressed head to toe in latex with a whip, but the man is headed out the door. She asks: “Where are you going?! I thought you wanted to get kinky!?”

He said, “Hey lady, I’ve already fricked your dog and shite in your purse. I am going home!”