Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 22

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 * 1312 – Pope Clement V issued a bull dissolving the Order of the Knights Templar.
 * 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
 * 1784 – The Emerald Buddha (pictured), considered to be the sacred palladium of Thailand, was installed in its current location at Wat Phra Kaew on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
 * 1871 – William Woods Holden, Governor of North Carolina, became the first U.S. state governor to be removed from office through impeachment.
 * 1942 – Second World War: British and Italian naval forces fought the Second Battle of Sirte in the Gulf of Sidra north of Libya.
 * 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashed in Flushing Bay shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 27 people, and leading to studies into the effects of ice on aircraft.
 * 2004 – Palestinian imam Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a founder and the spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed by an Israeli missile as he left early morning prayers.
 * 2014 – A massive landslide in Oso, Washington, killed 43 people after engulfing a rural neighborhood, the largest death toll for a standalone landslide in U.S. history.
 * Born/died: | Caroline Norton |b|1808| Willis J. Potts |b|1895| Cheddi Jagan  |b|1918|Reese Witherspoon |b|1976| Juan Uribe |b|1979| Odysseas Angelis |d|1987| Kenzō Tange |d|2005| Bebo Valdés |d|2013|