Lately is Saturday, March 22, the 81st day of 2024. There are 284 days left within the yr.
Lately in historical past:
On March 22, 1963, The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was once launched in the UK at the Parlophone report label.
Additionally in this date:
In 1765, the British Parliament handed the Stamp Act to lift cash from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was once repealed a yr later.)
In 1894, ice hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship recreation was once performed, wherein the Montreal Hockey Membership defeated the Ottawa Hockey Membership, 3-1.
In 1933, throughout the Prohibition Technology, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which allowed the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol content material of three.2%. (Prohibition could be totally repealed 9 months later with the ratification of the twenty first Modification.)
In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state formally went into operation; it stays the biggest capability energy station in the USA.
In 1945, the Arab League was once shaped with the adoption of a constitution in Cairo, Egypt.
In 1972, within the Eisenstadt vs. Baird determination, the U.S. Splendid Courtroom dominated that single folks had the similar proper to own and use birth control as did married folks.
In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his loss of life whilst making an attempt to stroll a cable strung between two lodge towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 1993, Intel Corp. unveiled the unique Pentium laptop chip.
In 2019, former President Jimmy Carter become the longest-living leader govt in American historical past; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the past due former President George H.W. Bush. (Carter would die at age 100 in December 2024.)
In 2021, 10 folks have been killed in a mass taking pictures at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. (The shooter, Ahmad Alissa, was once sentenced to lifestyles in jail with out parole in September 2024.)
Lately’s Birthdays:
- Artist Yayoi Kusama is 96.
- Actor William Shatner is 94.
- Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins is 84.
- Musician George Benson is 82.
- Author James Patterson is 78.
- TV journalist Wolf Blitzer is 77.
- Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 77.
- Sportscaster Bob Costas is 73.
- Actor Lena Olin is 70.
- Singer-actor Stephanie Generators is 68.
- Actor Matthew Modine is 66.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Jim Covert is 65.
- Actor-comedian Keegan-Michael Secret’s 54.
- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is 52.
- Actor Reese Witherspoon is 49.
- Actor Constance Wu is 43.
- Former NFL defensive finish J.J. Watt is 36.