These are just some of the events that happened on March 22nd.

1622, Algonquin Indians killed 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, an event now known as the Jamestown Massacre. 

1774, Tommy Thumb's Song Book, a collection of English nursery rhymes which included Baa Baa Black Sheep was published by Mrs. Mary Cooper.

1888, The English Football League was founded.

1895, The first celluloid film shown publicly on a screen was a short film by the Lumiere brothers Auguste AND Louis.

1896, German poet, novelist and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died.

1903, Niagara Falls ran short of water, due to a drought.

1904, The first color picture appeared in a newspaper, the Daily Illustrated Mirror.

1907, The first taxis with meters began operating in London, England.

1933, The Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Germany, opened.

1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law a bill legalizing the sale of beer and wine.

1942, The BBC began the first morse code broadcasts to the French Resistance.

1962, Karl Wallenda's nephew and son-in-law, also part of The Great Wallendas, were killed when their human pyramid act collapsed.

1978, Karl Wallenda plunged to his death while promoting a touring circus in Puerto Rico.

1984, Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California were charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school.  The charges were later dropped as completely unfounded.

1997, A powerful new "bullet train" service was launched in Japan, achieving the world's fastest average speed on a commercial run (151.5 miles, 242.4 kilometers per hour).

2004, Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, two bodyguards and nine civilian bystanders were killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

2006, Three Christian Peacemaker Teams hostages were freed by British forces in Baghdad, Iraq, after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

2009, Mount Redoubt in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.

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