🗞️Today’s Headlines

Everything important that’s ever happened on March 22:

2004 — An Israeli missile strike killed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, co-founder of Hamas and a prominent Palestinian Islamist leader, escalating tensions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

1972 — The US Senate approved the Equal Rights Amendment, aiming to guarantee equal rights under the law, especially for women, though it ultimately failed to gain ratification.

1945 — The Arab League was founded in Cairo by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan (now Jordan), Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, marking a significant political and cultural alliance among Arab nations.

1765 — The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, imposing taxes on the American colonies and sparking widespread protest that helped fan the flames of the American Revolution.

1638 — Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for challenging Puritan religious orthodoxy, a major event in colonial religious history.

1622 — Opechancanough led a deadly attack on the Jamestown Colony, killing over 300 settlers and intensifying the Powhatan War, a key conflict in early American history.

🎂 Today’s Birthdays

On March 22, we’re singing to:

William Shatner (1931) — Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, a franchise that has become a cultural phenomenon.

Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) — British composer celebrated for his record-breaking musicals like The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Evita, which have defined modern theatre.

Reese Witherspoon (1976) — Academy Award-winning actress and producer known for films like Legally Blonde and Walk the Line, as well as her work championing women in entertainment.

 🪦Who Died Today?

On March 22, we’re saying goodbye to:

Jonathan Edwards (1758) — American theologian and preacher, a central figure in the Great Awakening, remembered for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832) — German writer and polymath renowned for works like Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther, which influenced literature and philosophy across Europe.

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