Historical Events In March - 22

1999  On March - 22 raiLink Ltd.takes over operation of the CN Coronado, Bonnyville, and Lac La Biche subdivisions, northeast of Edmonton. The line extends from St. Paul Junction, immediately north of Edmonton, to Boyle and northeast to Grande Centre and Elk Point. It also connects with RaiLink's existing Lakeland and Waterways line at Boyle.   

2006  On March - 22 eTA declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain.   

2007  On March - 22 nATO troops launch two assaults in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, killing 38 Taliban terrorists. NATO suffers no casualties.   

2009  On this day in history mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unre.   

2012  On March - 22 largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education   

2012  On March - 22 the President of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, is ousted in a coup d'état after mutinous soldiers attack government offices.   

2013  On March - 22 37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand   

2014  251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda on March - 22.   

2017  Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center, 5.5 million square miles on this day in history.   

2017  Tomb of Jesus reopens after restoration in Jerusalem on March - 22.   

2017  On this day in history terrorist attack on London's Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament kills 4 including a police officer and injures 40   

2018  On March - 22 uS President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports   

2018  The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between Hawaii and California has 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and increasing rapidly according to new research on March - 22.   

2020  Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refuses American coronavirus COVID-19 help, refers to conspiracy theory that it was manufactured by the US on this day in history.   

2023  On March - 22 former UK PM Boris Johnson is grilled by Government Privileges Committee over whether he intentionally misled parliament over COVID-19 rule breaches by his administration [1]   

2023  Microsoft founder Bill Gates says development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance since the graphical user interface (GUI) in 1980 [1] on March - 22.   

2023  New DNA analysis of composer Ludwig van Beethoven 's hair reveals he probably died of cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis B, but doesn't explain his deafness [1] on this day in history.   

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0841  Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (d. 885) was born on this day in history.   

1212  On March - 22 birth of emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)   

1366  Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1399) was born on March - 22.   

1459  Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria was born on March - 22.   

1503  On this day in history birth of antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (d. 1583)   

1599  On this day in history birth of anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England)   

1609  On March - 22 birth of john II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68)   

1663  On March - 22 birth of august Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)   

0337  On this day in history constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47   

1322  Death of Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278) on this day in history.   

1418  On March - 22 death of dietrich of Nieheim, German historian   

1421  Death of Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388) on this day in history.   

1471  On March - 22 george van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies   

1544  Death of Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488) on this day in history.   

1589  On this day in history lodovico Guicciardini, Ital historian, dies at 67   

1602  Death of Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557) on March - 22.