On March 22, 1882, Congress outlawed polygamy.
In 1894 hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; the home team Montreal Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals 3-1.
In 1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris.
In 1933, during Prohibition, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
In 1941 the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state went into operation.
In 1945 the Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo.
In 1946 the British mandate in Transjordan came to an end.
In 1963 the Beatles’ first album, “Please Please Me,” was released in Britain.
In 1972 Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. (It fell three states short of the 38 needed for approval.)
In 1978 Karl Wallenda, patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico; he was 73.
In 1987 a garbage barge carrying 3,200 tons of refuse left Islip, N.Y., on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload.
In 1988 both houses of Congress overrode President Reagan’s veto of a sweeping civil rights bill.
In 1990 a jury in Anchorage found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood not guilty of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil.
In 1995 convicted Long Island Rail Road gunman Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people.
In 1998 a deeply divided United Auto Workers union approved a contract with Caterpillar Inc., ending a 61/2-year contract battle.
In 1999, acting as his own lawyer, Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial on murder charges for the first time, telling a jury in Pontiac, Mich., that he was merely carrying out his professional duty in a videotaped assisted death shown on “60 Minutes.” (Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder.)
In 2005 a woman claimed to have found a fingertip while eating Wendy’s chili at a restaurant in San Jose, Calif., costing the fast-food chain millions in lost sales before she admitted it was a hoax.
In 2006 the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain.
