IMPORTANT HISTORY DATES FOR MARCH 22ND

March 22, 1765
- Britain enacted the Stamp Act
to raise money from the American
Colonies. This money was the
first direct British tax on the
colonists. The tax covered just
about everything produced by the
American colonists and began the
decade of crisis that led to the
American Revolution. The Stamp
Act taxed the legal documents of
the American colonists and
infuriated John Adams.

March 22, 1872
- Illinois became the first state
to require sexual equality in
employment.

March 22, 1882
- US Congress outlawed polygamy.
The Edmunds Tucker Act was adopted
by the US to suppress polygamy in
the territories.

March 22, 1904
- The first color photograph was
published in the London Daily
illustrated Mirror.

March 22, 1919
- The first international airline
service was inaugurated on a weekly
schedule between Paris and Brussels.

March 22, 1953
- 2,500 Tribesmen are arrested in
Kenya as part of the continuing
crackdown by British authorities
against the Mau Mau.

March 22, 1977
- President Carter proposed the
abolition of the Electoral College.