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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Water_Day" title="World Water Day">World Water Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1312" title="1312">1312</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_V" title="Pope Clement V">Pope Clement V</a> issued <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_in_excelso" title="Vox in excelso">a bull</a> dissolving the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar" title="Knights Templar">Order of the Knights Templar</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1784" title="1784">1784</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Buddha" title="Emerald Buddha">Emerald Buddha</a></b>, considered to be the sacred <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_(protective_image)" title="Palladium (protective image)">palladium</a> of Thailand, was installed in its current location at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_Kaew" title="Wat Phra Kaew">Wat Phra Kaew</a> on the grounds of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palace" title="Grand Palace">Grand Palace</a> in Bangkok.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942" title="1942">1942</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>: British and Italian naval forces fought the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Sirte" title="Second Battle of Sirte">Second Battle of Sirte</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra" title="Gulf of Sidra">Gulf of Sidra</a> north of Libya.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992" title="1992">1992</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAir_Flight_405" title="USAir Flight 405">USAir Flight 405</a></b> crashed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Bay" title="Flushing Bay">Flushing Bay</a> shortly after takeoff from New York City's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport" title="LaGuardia Airport">LaGuardia Airport</a>, killing 27 people, and leading to studies into the effects of ice on aircraft.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014" title="2014">2014</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide" title="2014 Oso mudslide">A massive landslide</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oso,_Washington" title="Oso, Washington">Oso, Washington</a>, killed 43 people after engulfing a rural neighborhood, the largest death toll for a standalone landslide in U.S. history.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese_Witherspoon" title="Reese Witherspoon">Reese Witherspoon</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1976); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Uribe" title="Juan Uribe">Juan Uribe</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1979); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenz%C5%8D_Tange" title="Kenzō Tange">Kenzō Tange</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2005)</p>