📜 This Day in History
March 22
- 106The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.
- 1794The Slave Trade Act, which banned the export of slaves from the United States, was signed by George Washington
- 1934In golf, the first Masters Tournament was held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, United States.
- 1943World War II: Almost the entire population of the village of Khatyn, in present-day Belarus, were massacred by Ukrainian and Belarusian Nazi collaborators.
- 1995Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.
2024At least 145 people were killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.