Summary of the Day ✨ 22 March (22/03)
Air Canada Express Flight 8646 crashed at LaGuardia Airport killing both pilots while a terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Russia left at least 145 dead and 551 injured. A mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado claimed 10 lives as both India and Greece implemented nationwide curfews to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Historical Events 📜
- 2026: Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Two fatalities were reported, both being the captain and the co-pilot. This marked the first fatal accident involving a CRJ-900.
- 2024: At least 145 people are killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
- 2021: Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.
- 2020: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country’s largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
- 2020: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country’s first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
- 2019: The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.
- 2019: Two buses crash in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana’s capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.
- 2017: A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
- 2017: Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.
- 2016: Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
- 2013: At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
- 2006: Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
- 2004: Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
- 1997: Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women’s World Figure Skating Champion.
- 1997: Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.
Famous Births 👶
- 2001: Artūrs Šilovs, Latvian ice hockey player
- 2000: Dimitrios Meliopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1997: Alex Meret, Italian footballer
- 1997: Chimezie Metu, Nigerian-American basketball player
- 1997: Martin Wong, Hong Kong model and actor
- 1994: Edwin Díaz, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1994: Taurean Prince, American basketball player
- 1994: Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarusian tennis player
- 1994: Ha Sung-woon, South Korean singer
- 1992: Roston Chase, Barbadian cricketer
- 1992: Edy Tavares, Cape Verdean basketball player
- 1989: Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
- 1989: J. J. Watt, American football player
- 1988: Chris Ivory, American football player
- 1987: Ike Davis, American baseball player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2026: Lionel Jospin, French civil servant and politician, 165th Prime Minister of France (born 1937)
- 2025: Jessica Aber, American lawyer (born 1981)
- 2025: Andy Peebles, English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator (born 1948)
- 2024: Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (born 1925)
- 2019: Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
- 2018: Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (born 1911)
- 2016: Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (born 1969)
- 2016: Rita Gam, American actress (born 1927)
- 2015: Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (born 1933)
- 2015: Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager (born 1923)
- 2015: Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)
- 2014: Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author (born 1928)
- 2014: Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and manager (born 1929)
- 2014: Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1938)
- 2014: Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (born 1965)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Bihar Day (Bihar, India)
- Christian feast day:
Basil of Ancyra - Christian feast day:
Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen - Christian feast day:
Darerca of Ireland - Christian feast day:
Epaphroditus - Christian feast day:
Jonathan Edwards (Lutheranism) - Christian feast day:
Lea of Rome - Christian feast day:
Nicholas Owen - Christian feast day:
Paul of Narbonne - Christian feast day:
March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Earliest day on which Easter Sunday can fall (last in 1818, will not happen again until 2285), while April 25 is the latest. (Christianity)
- Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud (Puerto Rico)
- World Water Day (International)