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Events

• 1829 (197 years ago) In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
• 1906 (120 years ago) The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
• 1920 (106 years ago) Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attack the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• 1943 (83 years ago) World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
• 1946 (80 years ago) The United Kingdom grants full independence to Transjordan.
• 2006 (20 years ago) Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
• 2013 (13 years ago) At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Two buses crash in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.

Births

• 1394 (632 years ago) Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (died 1449)
• 1459 (567 years ago) Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1519)
• 1599 (427 years ago) Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter and etcher (died 1641)
• 1797 (229 years ago) William I, German Emperor (died 1888)
• 1868 (158 years ago) Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
• 1931 (95 years ago) William Shatner, Canadian actor
• 1931 (95 years ago) Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
• 1976 (50 years ago) Reese Witherspoon, American actress

Deaths

• 235 (1791 years ago) Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (born 208)
• 1687 (339 years ago) Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and conductor (born 1632)
• 1832 (194 years ago) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (born 1749)
• 2001 (25 years ago) Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish soldier and pilot (born 1913)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Ahmed Yassin, Co-founded Hamas (born 1937)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (born 1913)
• 2010 (16 years ago) James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
• 2026 Lionel Jospin, French civil servant and politician, 165th Prime Minister of France (born 1937)

All 394 events, births and deaths of March 22