- 1622 Algonquian Indians massacre 347 citizens, a third, of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1765 House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to collect tax on all official documents and letters in the American colonies; led to the Stamp Act Congress; repealed by the House of Lords on February 21, 1766.
- 1857 Elisha Otis installs the first department store passenger elevator, at E.V. Haughwout & Co., New York City.
- 1868 American physicist Robert Millikan born; 1923 Nobel for measuring the strength of an electron's charge in his famous oil-drop experiment.
- 1895 The Lumière brothers show the first movie.
- 1960 Working at Bell Telephone Labs, Charles Townes, with Arthur Schawlow, patents the laser.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Today in History: March 22
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