22 March
Notable Births
Artūrs Šilovs
b. 2001
Latvian ice hockey player (born 2001)
Alex Meret
b. 1997
Italian footballer (born 1997)
Chimezie Metu
b. 1997
Nigerian-American basketball player (born 1997)
Edwin Díaz
b. 1994
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1994)
Taurean Prince
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Aliaksandra Sasnovich
b. 1994
Belarusian tennis player (born 1994)
Ha Sung-woon
b. 1994
South Korean singer (born 1994)
Roston Chase
b. 1992
Barbadian cricketer (born 1992)
Edy Tavares
b. 1992
Cape Verdean basketball player (born 1992)
J. J. Watt
b. 1989
American football player and television analyst (born 1989)
Chris Ivory
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Ike Davis
b. 1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Liam Doran
b. 1987
British rallycross driver (born 1987)
Murder of Jairo Mora Sandoval
b. 1987
Costa Rican environmentalist
Dexter Fowler
b. 1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Jakob Fuglsang
b. 1985
Danish road racing cyclist
Justin Masterson
b. 1985
American baseball player (born 1985)
Piotr Trochowski
b. 1984
German footballer (born 1984)
Thomas Davis Sr.
b. 1983
American football player (born 1983)
Lew Wasserman
b. 1913
American studio executive and talent agent
Notable Deaths
Jessica Aber
d. 2025
American lawyer (1981–2025)
Andy Peebles
d. 2025
English DJ and television presenter (1948–2025)
Laurent de Brunhoff
d. 2024
French author and illustrator (1925–2024)
Scott Walker (singer)
d. 2019
British-American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (1943–2019)
Johan van Hulst
d. 2018
Righteous Among the Nations
Rob Ford
d. 2016
Canadian politician (1969–2016)
Rita Gam
d. 2016
American actress (1927–2016)
Arkady Arkanov
d. 2015
Russian writer, doctor, playwright and stand-up comedian
Norman Scribner
d. 2015
American classical composer
Yashwant Vithoba Chittal
d. 2014
Indian writer (1928–2014)
Mickey Duff
d. 2014
Polish-born British boxer, matchmaker, and promoter
Tasos Mitsopoulos
d. 2014
Cypriot politician (1965–2014)
Vladimír Čech
d. 2013
Czech actor, presenter and politician (1951–2013)
Bebo Valdés
d. 2013
Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger (1918–2013)
Joe Blanchard
d. 2012
American football player, professional wrestler
Neil L. Whitehead
d. 2012
English anthropologist
James Black (pharmacologist)
d. 2010
Scottish doctor and pharmacologist (1924–2010)
Cachao
d. 2008
Cuban double bassist and composer (1918–2008)
U. G. Krishnamurti
d. 2007
Indian contemporary spirituality figure (1918–2007)
Pierre Clostermann
d. 2006
World War II French ace fighter pilot
On This Day in History
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2026
Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Two fatalities were reported, both being the captain and the co-pilot. This marked the first fatal accident involving a CRJ-900.
Air Canada Express Flight 8646
2024
At least 145 people are killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
Crocus City Hall attack
2021
Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.
2021 Boulder shooting
2020
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
Narendra Modi
2020
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
2019
The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.
Mueller special counsel investigation
2019
Two buses crash in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.
Ghana
2017
A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
2017 Westminster attack
2017
Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.
Syrian civil war
2016
Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
2016 Brussels bombings
2013
At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
2013 Thailand refugee camp fire
2006
Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
Community Peacemaker Teams
2004
Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
Ahmed Yassin
1997
Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
Tara Lipinski
1997
Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.
Comet Hale–Bopp
1996
NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on its 16th mission, STS-76.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1995
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
Astronaut
1993
The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
Intel
1992
USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
USAir Flight 405
1992
Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
Fall of communism in Albania