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Today in History

  • 1945 The Arab League is founded

    The organization was founded to promote political, economic, and cultural collaboration amongst its

  • 1960 The laser is patented

    Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow received the first patent for their device, although

  • 1963 The Beatles release their first album

    Please Please Me, which included the hit single “Love Me Do” is regarded as one of the greatest albu

  • 1993 The Intel Corporation produces the first Pentium microprocessor

    Intel holds about 80% of the world market share in the PC microprocessor business.

  • 1997 Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest female figure skating world champion

    The American athlete won the 1997 World Figure Skating Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland at the

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Births On This Day,
March, 22

  • 1976 Reese Witherspoon

    American actress, producer

  • 1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber

    English director, composer

  • 1936 Ron Carey

    American union leader

  • 1930 Stephen Sondheim

    American composer, songwriter

  • 1923 Marcel Marceau

    French mime, actor

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Deaths On This Day,
March, 22

  • 2009 Abismo Negro

    Mexican wrestler

  • 2009 Jade Goody

    English nurse, author

  • 2001 William Hanna

    American animator, director, producer, actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera

  • 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    German writer, scientist

  • 1820 Stephen Decatur

    American navy officer