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On this day, March 22, in history:
In 1638, religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy.
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In 1765, Britain enacted the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the American colonies. The Act was repealed the following year.
In 1818, Easter Sunday was on March 22nd, the earliest date it can occur. It will not fall on March 22nd again until 2285.
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In 1832, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, novelist and playwright, died.
In 1882, U.S. President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.
In 1884, Elizabeth Smellie, the first woman promoted to colonel in the Canadian Army, was born at Port Arthur, Ont. She joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1915 as a nurse and served in France and England. In between the wars, she headed the Victorian Order of Nurses, but in 1940 re-entered the army and supervised the organization of the Women’s Army Corps. She died in 1968.
In 1885, troops were mobilized across Canada because of the Northwest Rebellion.
In 1894, the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association won the first Stanley Cup championship game. The Triple-A’s beat the visiting Ottawa Capitals 3-1 to take the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association tournament in five games. The trophy was donated a year earlier by Gov. Gen. Lord Stanley of Preston to the Canadian amateur hockey champions. He said his sons had enjoyed playing hockey on the rink at their Rideau Hall home. The Stanley Cup is the oldest pro sports competition in North America.
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In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiere gave the first public exhibition of a motion picture using celluloid film. The film, shown in Paris, was of workers leaving the Lumiere factory.
In 1907, the first cabs with taxi meters began operating in London.
In 1909, writer Gabrielle Roy was born at St Boniface, Man.
In 1923, future broadcasting legend Foster Hewitt broadcast his first hockey game on radio — an intermediate game between Kitchener and Parkdale — from Toronto’s Mutual Street Arena on radio station CFCA.
In 1929, the U.S. Coast Guard sank the Canadian rumrunner I’m Alone in the Gulf of Mexico. Prohibition was in force in the U.S., but since the manufacture of liquor was legal in Canada, Ottawa took the position that it could not forbid its export.
In 1931, William Shatner, film and television actor, best known as Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise in “Star Trek,” was born in Montreal.
In 1945, the League of Arab States was formed in Cairo.
In 1946, Jordan gained independence from British rule.
In 1958, Michael Todd, an American film producer and Elizabeth Taylor’s third husband, and three other people were killed in a plane crash in New Mexico. Todd was best known for his 1956 film Around the World in Eighty Days, which won an Academy Award for best picture. The aircraft, named The Lucky Liz, crashed in an area of fog, snow and thunderstorms.
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In 1960, the first patent on lasers was granted in the United States to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes.
In 1965, the United States announced the use of gas warfare in Vietnam.
In 1971, radio and television were admitted into the Nova Scotia legislature for the first time.
In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old leader of a family high-wire team, died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when he fell 40 metres during a performance.
In 1978, Canada’s longest hostage-taking ended when six hostages and their three captors came out of a prison at St-Jerome, Que. The incident began March 8th.
In 1979, the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association agreed to merge. Four WHA teams — the Winnipeg Jets, Edmonton Oilers, Quebec Nordiques and New England Whalers — joined the NHL for the 1979-80 season.
In 1986, a settlement was reached in the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India. Union Carbide agreed to pay US$350 million for the leak at its pesticide plant that killed more than 2,000 people and injured 200,000.
In 1989, Canada and 115 other countries unanimously approved a UN-sponsored treaty to control the proliferating trade in hazardous waste. The treaty said wastes could only be exported to countries able to handle them safely. Developing countries had complained of industrialized countries dumping waste on their territory. Environmentalists said the dumping of toxic waste was a multi-billion-dollar business.
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In 1990, Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood was found not guilty of being drunk and reckless after nearly 41 million litres of oil spilled into Alaska’s Prince William Sound in March 1989. Hazelwood was convicted on the minor charge of negligent discharge of oil and fined US$50,000.
In 1994, animator Walter Lantz, creator of the Woody Woodpecker cartoon character, died in Burbank, Calif., at the age of 93.
In 1995, Marshall McCall, an astronomy professor at York University, announced the discovery of two new galaxies near the Milky Way.
In 1995, Pan American Games officials announced Victoria rower Silken Laumann had tested positive for a banned stimulant. Laumann said she did not know ephedrine was in a cold medicine she took before Canada won the women’s quad sculls in Argentina. The Canadians were stripped of their gold medals.
In 1997, five people belonging to the Order of the Solar Temple cult were found dead in a burning house in St. Casimir, Que.
In 1999, the federal government introduced back-to-work legislation for 14,000 striking federal employees, saying rotating pickets were crippling grain exports and delaying tax returns.
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In 2000, British Columbia’s tough anti-smoking law was tossed out by a court ruling that the province’s Workers’ Compensation Board did not hold proper public hearings into its ban on smoking in all B.C. workplaces — including bars, restaurants and prisons.
In 2004, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced $1 billion bailout package to farmers devastated by mad-cow disease.
In 2004, Justice Frank Iacobucci announced his retirement from the Supreme Court of Canada.
In 2004, 67-year-old Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a quadriplegic preacher who founded the Islamic militant group Hamas in 1987, was killed instantly by missiles fired from an Israeli helicopter as he left a mosque at daybreak in Gaza City.
In 2006, the B.C. ferry Queen of the North sank after going off course and hitting a rock about 90 kilometres south of Prince Rupert. Despite early reports that all 101 passengers and crew were safely rescued, it was later determined that two people were killed. In March 2010, navigating officer Karl Lilgert was charged with criminal negligence causing death. (In 2013, he was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison.)
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In 2008, Jeffrey Buttle of Barrie, Ont., won gold at the world figure-skating championship in Sweden.
In 2011, an Israeli court sentenced former Israeli President Moshe Katsav to seven years in prison following his December 2010 conviction of raping an employee when he was a Cabinet minister in 1998.
In 2016, ISIL suicide bombers killed 32 people and wounded 279 others in a pair of bombings at the Brussels airport and another at a subway station near the city’s European Union headquarters.
In 2016, former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, whose scandal-plagued time in office propelled him to international infamy, died at age 46. He succumbed to cancer 18 months after doctors discovered a softball-sized malignant tumour in his abdomen.
In 2017, a British-born ISIL sympathizer plowed a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge, killing four and wounding dozens, before crashing into Parliament’s gates. He then jumped out and attacked Const. Keith Palmer, stabbing him to death before being shot to death by police.
In 2017, Ontario held its first cap-and-trade auction, with the funds to be invested in programs aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions. It sold all current allowances to generate $472 million. (The four standalone auctions in 2017 brought in $1.9 billion. Ontario entered a joint carbon market with Quebec and California on Jan. 1, 2018.)
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In 2018, Wayne Huizenga, a college dropout who built a business empire that included Blockbuster Entertainment, Waste Management, AutoNation and three professional sports franchises, died of cancer. He was 80.
In 2019, a Conservative-led filibuster ended just minutes before 1 a.m., capping an almost 30 hour effort to force the Prime Minister to loosen the reins on his former attorney general, allowing her to talk about the fallout from the SNC Lavalin affair. The filibuster resulted in the cancellation of question period the day before and scheduled debate on government bills.
In 2019, a truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos crash was sentenced to eight years in prison. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu of Calgary had earlier pleaded guilty to 29 counts of dangerous driving. Judge Inez Cardinal told court in Melfort, Sask., that Sidhu’s remorse and guilty plea were mitigating factors, but she had to consider the number of people who died or were severely injured and faced lifelong challenges. Sidhu barrelled through a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey team’s bus at a rural Saskatchewan intersection in April of 2018 and killed 16 people and injured 13.
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In 2020, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, Joyce Milgaard, who spent decades fighting for the exoneration of her wrongfully convicted son, David Milgaard, died at the age of 89.
In 2020, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee said they wouldn’t send their teams to Japan to participate in the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo as a result of the growing COVID-19 pandemic. The two committees said unless the Games were pushed back a year, Canada would not participate.
In 2021, twenty-six countries sent representatives to stand outside the Chinese court where Canadian Michael Kovrig was put on trial. As was the case with Canadian Michael Spavor’s trial, the Canadian Embassy’s deputy chief of mission was refused entry. (Kovrig and Spavor were released in September 2021.)
In 2021, Canada joined the U.S., the EU and the United Kingdom in levying sanctions against China over its actions against Uyghur Muslims. The federal government said mounting evidence pointed to state-led abuses by Chinese authorities against more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities based on their religion and ethnicity.
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