Today in History 22nd March

1979 Israel-Egyptian peace agreement signed

American Revolution
1776 South Carolina approves new constitution

Automotive
2008 Ford sells Jaguar and Land Rover to India’s Tata

Civil War
1864 McPherson takes over the Army of the Tennessee

Cold War
1950 McCarthy charges that Owen Lattimore is a Soviet spy

Crime
1987 Torture chamber uncovered in Philadelphia

Disaster
1872 Deadly earthquake hits California

General Interest
1953 Salk announces polio vaccine
1997 Heaven’s Gate cult members found dead

Hollywood
2000 American Beauty tops Academy Awards

Literary
1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel published

Music
1955 Black music gets whitewashed, as Georgia Gibbs hits the pop charts with “The Wallflower (Dance With Me, Henry)”

Old West
1832 The steamboat Yellowstone heads for Montana

Presidential
1804 Jefferson presented with a “mammoth loaf” of bread

Sports
1979 Michigan State defeats Indiana State in NCAA championship

Vietnam War
1969 Antiwar demonstration in Washington
1975 Hue falls to the communists

World War I
1917 First Battle of Gaza

World War II
1941 Naval warfare gets new weapon