March 22: World Water Day; Earth Hour (20:30 local time, 2025)Charilaos Vasilakos (center) training for the marathon106 The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.1638 Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her participation in the Antinomian Controversy.1896 Charilaos Vasilakos (pictured) won the first modern marathon in preparation for the inaugural Summer Olympics.1913 Phan Xch Long, the self-proclaimed emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.1984 Teachers at a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren, leading to the longest and costliest criminal trial in United States history.1995 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.John Kemp (d.1454)Yayoi Kusama (b.1929)Abolhassan Banisadr (b.1933)Rob Ford (d.2016)More anniversaries: March 21March 22March 23ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout