Today in History - History - March 22nd

1970Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic

1959Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Nehi Golf Tournament

1944American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin

1972Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP

1988Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill

1953Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open

1964Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section

1933FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal

2011Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation

1987Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open

1869Emilio Aguinaldo, 1st President of the Philippines (1899-1901) (d. 1964)

1868Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923)

1948Andrew Lloyd Webber, London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)

1931William Shatner, Montreal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)

1984Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (36) weds singer/dancer Sarah Brightman (23) in Hampshire, England

1916British writer ('Lord of the Rings'), poet and professor J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien marries Edith Mary Bratt at St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, Warwick

1758Jonathan Edwards, American Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin), dies at 54

2001William Hanna, American animator and studio founder, dies at 90