TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 22
1622 Indians attack a group of colonists in the James River area of Virginia, killing 350 residents.
1664 Charles II gives large tracts of land from west of the Connecticut River to the east of Delaware Bay in North America to his brother James, the Duke of York.
1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1765 The Stamp Act is passed, the first direct British tax on the American colonists.
1775 British statesman Edmund Burke makes a speech in the House of Commons, urging the government to adopt a policy of reconciliation with America.
1794 Congress passes laws prohibiting slave trade with foreign countries although slavery remains legal in the United States.
1832 British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to electoral system of England and Wales, increasing electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1882 Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories
1904 The first color photograph is published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill legalizing the sale and possession of beer and wine.
1935 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York)
1945 The Arab League is founded
The organization was founded to promote political, economic, and cultural collaboration amongst its member states, which include 21 African, Asian, and Middle Eastern countries, from Mauritania in the west to Oman in the east.
1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1968 Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone
1972 The U.S. Senate passes the Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment fails to achieve ratification.
1988 Congress overrides Reagan’s veto of sweeping civil rights bill
1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate
1993 The Intel Corporation produces the first Pentium microprocessor
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