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Events on March 22

• 1848 The March Fallen from the Berlin barricade uprising are laid out in state before the German Cathedral at Gendarmenmarkt. They are then buried in the newly created Cemetery of the March Fallen. On the way there, King Frederick William IV of Prussia bows to them.
• 1895 The Lumière brothers screen a version of the film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory with the Cinématographe before a closed audience at the Société d’Encouragement à l’Industrie Nationale.
• 1935 The world's first regular television program is broadcast from the Berlin radio tower. Reich Broadcasting Director Eugen Hadamovsky opens the broadcast of the “Paul Nipkow” television station.
• 1945 The Arab states of Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria found the Arab League in Cairo for cooperation in foreign policy and the peaceful settlement of mutual conflicts.
• 1963 The Beatles' first LP, Please Please Me, is released in Great Britain. Almost all of the tracks were recorded in a single recording session on February 11.
• 1974 The German Bundestag passes a resolution to lower the age of majority from 21 to 18 as of January 1, 1975.
• 1989 Buffalo Sabres ice hockey goaltender Clint Malarchuk has a jugular vein cut open in an unfortunate collision with an opponent. He survives the severe injury and is back on the ice after just one week.
• 1994 Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama Schindler's List is honored with seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
• 1995 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov returns to Earth after a stay in a space station lasting 417 days, the longest to date.
• 2007 The Austrian-German feature film The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky, about the National Socialist Operation Bernhard during World War II and starring Karl Markovics, opens in cinemas.
• 2016 In terrorist attacks in Brussels, three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 230 at the airport and at a metro station in the city center.
• 2020 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, regulations on social distancing are published.

Born on March 22

• 1890 Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, German politician, victim of National Socialism
• 1912 Karl Malden, American actor
• 1920 Werner Klemperer, German-American actor and musician
• 1921 Nino Manfredi, Italian actor
• 1930 Stephen Sondheim, American musical composer and lyricist
• 1931 William Shatner, Canadian actor and author
• 1950 Hugo Egon Balder, German actor and cabaret artist
• 1970 Anja Kling, German actress
• 1980 Alexander Milo, German-Serbian actor
• 2000 Anna Ermakova, British model

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „22. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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