From Historynet: Today in History March 22

1622          Indians attack a group of colonists in the James River area of Virginia, killing 350 residents.

1630          The first legislation prohibiting gambling is enacted in Boston.

1664          Charles II  gives large tracts of land from west of the Connecticut River to the east of Delaware Bay in North America to his brother James , the Duke of York.

1719          Frederick William  abolishes serfdom on crown property in Prussia.

1765          The Stamp Act is passed, the first direct British tax on the American colonists.

1775          British statesman Edmund Burke  makes a speech in the House of Commons, urging the government to adopt a policy of reconciliation with America.

1790          Thomas Jefferson  becomes the first U.S. Secretary of State.

1794          Congress passes laws prohibiting slave trade with foreign countries although slavery remains legal in the United States.

1834          Horace Greeley  publishes New Yorker, a weekly literary and news magazine and forerunner of 

Harold Ross'  more successful The New Yorker.

1901          Japan proclaims that it is determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.

1904          The first color photograph is published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.

1907          Russians troops complete the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces.

1915          A German Zepplin makes a night raid on Paris railway stations.

1919          The first international airline service is inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.

1933          President Franklin D. Roosevelt  signs a bill legalizing the sale and possession of beer and wine.

1935          Persia is renamed Iran.

1946          First U.S. built rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere reaches a 50-mile height.

1948          The United States announces a land reform plan for Korea.

1954          The London gold market reopens for the first time since 1939.

1968          President Lyndon Johnson  names 

General William Westmoreland  as Army Chief of Staff.

1972          The U.S. Senate passes the Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment fails to achieve ratification.

1974          The Viet Cong propose a new truce with the United States and South Vietnam, which includes general elections.

1990          A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, finds 

Captain Hazelwood  not guilty in the Valdez oil spill.