This Day in History

March 22nd in History

The US Supreme Court finally legalizes sex between unmarried people...in 1972! In other news, Parliament punishes those pesky colonials with a Stamp Act, the laser is patented, and Comet Hale-Bopp gets closest to Earth. It's the birthday of Andrew Lloyd Weber and Stephen Sondheim, along with William Shatner, Marcel Marceau, and Chico Marx. Uncle Dave Mason, the "Dixie Dewdrop" died, along with Goethe and Stephen Decatur. Happy Puerto Rican Emancipation Day!

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Quote of the Day

"He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise."

Thomas Hughes, author died March 22, 1896