Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 22

This is a list of selected March 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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  Flag of the Arab League
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  Emblem of the Arab League
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  Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
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  Amerigo Vespucci
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  1765 tax stamp
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  Valeri Polyakov
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  William Woods Holden
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  Phan Xích Long

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II were jointly proclaimed Roman emperor, the latter because of his father's advanced age.	Date not stated in article
1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon appointed Amerigo Vespucci to the post of Chief Navigator of Spain.	Many "page needed" tags
1622 – The Powhatan Confederacy under Chief Opchanacanough killed almost 350 English settlers around Jamestown, a third of the Colony of Virginia's population.	refimprove section
1849 – First Italian War of Independence: After capturing the fortress town of Mortara, forces led by Austrian General Joseph Radetzky von Radetz routed Sardinian troops at the Battle of Novara.	multiple issues
1920 – A pogrom in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh, by Azeris destroyed the Armenian-populated portions of the town.	quote farm
1933 – The Holocaust: Construction of the first Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was completed.	refimprove section
1943 – World War II: Almost the entire population of the village of Khatyn, in present-day Belarus, were massacred by Ukrainian and Belarusian Nazi collaborators.	Missing citations
1945 – Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, and Yemen founded the Arab League, a regional organization that facilitates political, economic, cultural, scientific and social programs designed to promote the interests of the Arab world.	refimprove section
1963 – Please Please Me, the first album recorded by the Beatles, was released.	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 1312 – Pope Clement V issued a bull dissolving the Order of the Knights Templar.
• 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
• 1784 – The Emerald Buddha (pictured), considered to be the sacred palladium of Thailand, was installed in its current location at Wat Phra Kaew on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
• 1871 – William Woods Holden, Governor of North Carolina, became the first U.S. state governor to be removed from office through impeachment.
• 1942 – Second World War: British and Italian naval forces fought the Second Battle of Sirte in the Gulf of Sidra north of Libya.
• 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashed in Flushing Bay shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 27 people, and leading to studies into the effects of ice on aircraft.
• 2004 – Palestinian imam Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a founder and the spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed by an Israeli missile as he left early morning prayers.
• 2014 – A massive landslide in Oso, Washington, killed 43 people after engulfing a rural neighborhood, the largest death toll for a standalone landslide in U.S. history.
• Born/died: | Caroline Norton |b|1808| Willis J. Potts |b|1895| Cheddi Jagan |b|1918|Reese Witherspoon |b|1976| Juan Uribe |b|1979| Odysseas Angelis |d|1987| Kenzō Tange |d|2005| Bebo Valdés |d|2013|

Notes

• Erawan Shrine (1784) appears on March 21, so Emerald Buddha should not appear in the same year

March 22: World Water Day

Charilaos Vasilakos (center) training for the marathon

• 106 – The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.
• 1638 – Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her participation in the Antinomian Controversy.
• 1896 – Charilaos Vasilakos (pictured) won the first modern marathon in preparation for the inaugural Summer Olympics.
• 1913 – Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
• 1984 – Teachers at a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren, leading to the longest and costliest criminal trial in United States history.
• 1995 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.

• John Kemp (d. 1454)
• Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
• Abolhassan Banisadr (b. 1933)
• Rob Ford (d. 2016)

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