March 22
The Masters
On this day in 1934, the first Masters Tournament opened under the title "Augusta National Invitation Tournament," which was won three days later by Horton Smith.
841 - Bernard Plantaihosa, Count of Auvergne
1366 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk
1599 - The amazing Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter notably for Charles I King of England
1723 - Charles Carroll, American Statesman
1797 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German Emperor
1887 - Chico Marx
1908 - Louis L'Amour
and...
In 1312, Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering the dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar
In 1638, religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusets Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy
In 1765 , the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax (it was repealed a year later)
Happy Weekend!