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Saturday, March 22, 2008

March 22

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.

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