Today in History: March 22

2014 - 251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda

2014 - 30 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington

2014 - Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people

2014 - The US and EU impose sanctions on Russia

2012 - Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education

2013 - 37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand

2012 - Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New South Wales

2012 - Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya

2012 - Ireland returns to recession as GDP falls by 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2011 following a fall of 1.1% in the third quarter

2011 - Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation

2009 - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.

2008 - The French Swimmer Alain Bernard sets the world record of 47.50 for the 100 m freestyle long course after winning the European LC Championships 2008.

2003 - 23rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Swept Away wins

2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.

2006 - ETA, armed Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.

2006 - BC Ferries' M/V Queen of the North runs aground on Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.

2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American Tom Fox.

1998 - 18th Golden Raspberry Awards: The Postman wins

1997 - "Sunset Boulevard" closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances

1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)

1997 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Lausanne won by Tara Lipinski (USA)

1996 - Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl

1996 - STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit

1995 - Deputy Gov of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist

1994 - Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)

1994 - Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)

1994 - South African government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland

1994 - Soyuz TM-21 lands

1993 - Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS

1992 - "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances

1992 - Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship

1992 - England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final

1992 - Joseph A Molloy elected NY Yankee general partner

1992 - US Air NY to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die

1991 - Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at U of Va seizing drugs

1991 - NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"

1991 - Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband

1990 - "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances

1990 - "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston

1990 - Anchorage jury finds Capt Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill

1990 - The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games

1989 - Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.

1945: The Arab League, a regional organization of Arab states in the Middle East, was organized in Cairo by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan (now Jordan), Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.

1934: The Augusta National Golf Club hosted the first Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

1894: The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association won ice hockey's first Stanley Cup.

1832: German author and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar.

1820: U.S. Navy Commissioner Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel.

1765: The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, inflaming relations with the American colonies.

1622: Opechancanough, brother of Chief Powhatan and his successor as the leader of the Powhatan Indian empire, led an attack on the Jamestown Colony this day in 1622, killing at least 347 colonists and initiating the Powhatan War.

1599: Anthony Van Dyck, after Peter Paul Rubens the most prominent Flemish painter of the 17th century, was born in Antwerp.