On This Day In History | |
1622: Murder at Jamestown Opechancanough, brother of Chief Powhatan and his successor as the leader of the Powhatan Indian empire, led an attack on the Jamestown Colony this day in 1622, killing at least 347 colonists and initiating the Powhatan War. | |
Jamestown Fort in Virginia (U.S.), c. 1608 | |
Biography Of The Day | |
Andrew Lloyd Webber 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 this day in 1948. | |
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, 2005 | |
More Events On This Day In History | |
1945 | 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. |
1934 | 1934 The Augusta National Golf Club hosted the first Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia |
1894 | 1894 The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association won ice hockey's first Stanley Cup. |
1832 German author and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar. | |
1820 U.S. Navy Commissioner Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel. | |
1765 The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, inflaming relations with the American colonies. | |
1599 Anthony Van Dyck, after Peter Paul Rubens the most prominent Flemish painter of the 17th century, was born in Antwerp. |
Saturday, March 22, 2008
March 22
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