Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for March 22, 2022

Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily here. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• World and National Water Day
• Emancipation Day (Puerto Rico)
• 1349: Townspeople of Fulda, Germany massacred Jews, blaming them for the Black Death
• 1622: The first massacre of Europeans by Native Americans took place when the Powhatan killed 347 people in Jamestown Virginia
• 1630: Boston enacted the first colonial legislation prohibiting gambling
• 1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
• 1765: The Stamp Act, the first direct British tax on American colonists, was passed by Parliament
• 1794: Congress banned US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
• 1832: The British Parliament passed the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales, that increased the number of eligible male voters from about 500,000 voters to 813,000, but included the first explicit prohibition on women voting
• 1872: Illinois became the first state to require sexual equality in employment
• 1873: Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico
• 1903: Niagara Falls ran out of water because of a drought
• 1907: The new Boer government in the Transvaal passed an Asiatic Registration Bill that restricted immigration from India
• 1922: The Rand Rebellion in Southern Africa, which started as a strike by white mineworkers and became an armed rebellion against the state, was brought to a brutal end by the police
• 1934: Fire destroyed Hakodate, Japan, killing 1,500 people, and injuring 1,000 more
• 1943: The Dutch work week was extended to 54 hours
• 1943: Obligatory work for woman ended in Belgium
• 1943: Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatened to kill half of the nation’s Jewish children
• 1946: Britain signed a treaty granting independence to Jordan
• 1957: An earthquake shook San Francisco
• 1965: The US confirmed its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
• 1968: Students rioted in Nanterre, near Paris
• 1972: The US Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, but it has not been ratified by the states
• 1972: In Eisenstadt v Baird, the US Supreme Court ruled unmarried people have the same right to contraception as married people
• 1979: The Israeli parliament approved the peace treaty with Egypt
• 1988: The US Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan’s veto of a sweeping civil rights bill
• 2009: Alaska’s Mount Redoubt began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest
• 2012: A massive fire devoured thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatened wildlife on Mount Kenya
• 2012: Quebec’s largest protest ever occurred in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
• 2013: 37 people were killed and 200 were injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand
• 2014: 43 people were killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington
• 2014: Guinea confirmed the Ebola outbreak had already killed 59 people
• 2014: The US and EU imposed sanctions on Russia
• 2017: Arctic ice cover was at its lowest level on record according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center
• 2018: The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” between Hawaii and California had an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and was increasing rapidly according to new research
• 2020: India put 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19
• 2021: Sanctions were imposed on Chinese officials bu the EU, UK, US, and Canada over human rights abuses against the minority Uighur population
• 2021: Evanston, Illinois voted to become the first US city to pay reparations to Black residents for past discrimination and the effects of slavery, giving $400,000 to each household
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including March 22, 2022

• International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week (March 20-26)
• National Agriculture Week (March 20-26)
• National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week (March 20-26)
• National Poison Prevention Week (March 20-26)
• (International) Week of Solidarity with Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Discrimination (March 21-27)
  
  

March Monthly Holidays and Observances

• Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
• American Diabetes Alert Month
• Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month
• American Red Cross Month
• Brain Injury Awareness Month
• Colic Awareness Month
• Credit Education Month
• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness Month
• Endometriosis Month
• Gender Equality Month
• Hemophilia Month
• International Ideas Month
• International Listening Awareness Month
• Kidney Month
• Malignant Hyperthermia Awareness and Training Month
• National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
• National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
• National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
• National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
• National Endometriosis Awareness Month
• National Essential Tremor Awareness Month
• National Ethics Awareness Month
• National Eye Donor Month
• National Kidney Month
• National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month
• National Nutrition Month
• National Optimism Month
• National Women’s History Month
• Rosacea Awareness Month
• Save Your Vision Month
• Spiritual Wellness Month
• Trisomy Awareness Month
• Vascular Anomalies Awareness Month
• Workplace Eye Healthy and Safety Awareness Month
• Lent (March 2 – April 14)
• Orthodox Lent (March 7 – April 23)