March 22 is the 81th day of the year (82st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 284.

Railways

22 March 1924 The first law adopted by the Republic for railway construction: Law 448 on the construction of the Arade-Diyarbakır-Ergani Railway.

Events

1737 – Hacı İvazzade Mehmed Pasha was brought to the position of Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire, replacing Yeğin Mehmed Pasha.
1829 – The protocol on the founding of Greece was signed by the ambassadors of the European states at the conference held in London.
1888 – The English Football League, the oldest football organization in world football, was founded in England.
1921 – War of Independence: Kuva-yi Milliye forces forced French army units to leave Feke.
1933 - Dachau Concentration Camp, the first regular concentration camp, is established.
1939 – Memel (in and around modern-day Klaipėda) joins Germany.
1942 – II. World War II: Second Battle of Sirte (naval battle between the Royal Navy and Regia Marina)
1943 – Mutual radio broadcasting service was opened between Turkey and the USA.
1944 – II. World War II: At the Battle of Monte Cassino, German resistance is broken.
1945 – Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen establish the Arab League in Cairo.
1963 – The first album of The Beatles, which is shown among the best five hundred albums in history, Please Please Me was released to the market.
1963 – Former President Celâl Bayar, who was sentenced to death in the Yassıada trials but whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, was released.
1967 – Daewoo company was founded in South Korea.
1968 – Students at Nanterre University in Paris, who opposed the US war in Vietnam and wanted education reform, occupied the first lecture hall of the university under the leadership of Daniel Cohn-Bendit, initiating the “68 events”.
1969 – Revolutionary Nationalist Youth Congress convened in Istanbul. Yusuf Kupeli and Deniz Gezmiş, the leader of the Federation of Intellectual Clubs, whose short name is FKF, published a manifesto. They announced the program of struggle for the goal of “a fully independent and truly democratic Turkey”.
1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): The presidential election that should have been held in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was not held. He was not elected president for months until September 12, 1980.
1986 – Mehmet Ali Ağca was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy.
1988 – Türkiye İmar Bankası TAŞ was established.
1993 – Intel Pentium goes on sale.
1995 – In the operation in northern Iraq, 3 thousand PKK members were surrounded; 200 were killed, eight soldiers were killed and another 11 were wounded.
2001 – In the Yüksekova Gang trial, which lasted 5 years at Diyarbakır SSC, 15 defendants were given prison sentences ranging from 3 to 30 years.
2003 – Businessperson Halil Bezmen, who has three separate arrest warrants in absentia, was put in prison.
2006 – Adwaitya, the tortoise considered the oldest living animal of its time, dies at the age of 256.
2016 – After 2 explosions at the airport in Brussels, twin explosions occurred at metro stations. At least 34 people were killed and 136 seriously injured in the attacks.

Births

1394 – Ulugh Beg, 4th Sultan of the Timurid Empire, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1449)
1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)
1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
1609 – II. Jan Kazimierz Waza, king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1672)
1709 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian Landscape painter (d. 1784)
1797 – Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and first German Emperor (d. 1888)
1818 – Heinrich Zollinger, Swiss botanist (d. 1859)
1822 – Isaac Dignus Fransen van de Putte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1902)
1842 – Carl Rosa, German-born English opera composer and director (d. 1889)
1857 – Paul Doumer, President of France (d. 1932)
1868 – Robert A. Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 1953)
1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino independence leader (d. 1964)
1872 – Salvador Toscano, Mexican film producer, director, and distributor (d. 1947)
1875 – Anton Hanak, Austrian sculptor (d. 1934)
1880 – Kuniaki Koiso, Japanese soldier and politician (d. 1950)
1886 – Kálmán Darányi, Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1939)
1887 – Chico Marx, American comedian and film actor (d. 1961)
1892 – Johannes Friessner, German Generaloberst (d. 1971)
1893 – Abbas Mirza Sharifzade, Azerbaijani actor and director (d. 1938)
1905 – Grigori Kozintsev, Soviet film director (d. 1973)
1906 – Nurullah Berk, Turkish painter (d. 1982)
1907 James Maurice Gavin, American soldier (d. 1990)
1909 – Nathan Rosen, Israeli physicist (d. 1995)
1911 – Munis Faik Ozansoy, Turkish bureaucrat, poet and writer (d. 1975)
1912 – Karl Malden, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (d. 2009)
1913 – Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish pilot (d. 2001)
1913 – Vartan İhmalyan, Armenian-Turkish writer and member of the Communist Party of Turkey (d. 1987)
1917 – Ewald Cebula, Polish former football player (d. 2004)
1922 – Osman Fahir Seden, Turkish director (d. 1998)
1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime (d. 2007)
1925 – Mustafa Ok, Turkish soldier and politician (d. 2009)
1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (d. 2018)
1933 – Abu'l-Hasan Bani Sadr, 1st President of Iran
1943 George Benson, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
1947 – Érik Orsenna, French politician and novelist
1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English musician
1949 – John Toshack, Welsh football player
1950 - Hugo Egon Balder, German comedian, actor and presenter
1950 – Goran Bregović, Bosnian Serbo-Croatian composer, guitarist and singer
1959 – Carlton Cuse, Mexican producer and screenwriter
1966 – António Pinto, Portuguese athlete
1967 – Hiroaki Nagashima, Japanese football player
1968 – Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth), Norwegian guitarist and co-founder of Mayhem (d. 1993)
1968 – Mubariz Mansimov, Turkish businessman of Azerbaijani descent
1969 – Tuna Arman, Turkish actress
1970 – Anja Kling, German actress
1972 – Shawn Bradley, retired American basketball player
1972 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
1974 – Marcus Camby, former American professional basketball player
1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
1977 – John Otto, American musician
1984 – Piotr Trochowski, Polish-born former German football player
1985 – Jakob Diemer Fuglsang, Danish professional road cyclist
1986 – Jeon Boram, South Korean singer, actress, and member of the group T-ara
1987 – Ludovic Lamine Sané, Senegalese national football player
1988 - Tania Raymonde, American actress
1992 – Walter Tavares, Cape Verdean professional basketball player
1993 – Christopher Jullien, French football player
1997 – İnci Ece Öztürk, Turkish bocce player
2002 – Andrey Yesipenko, Russian chess grandmaster

Deaths

1685 – Emperor Go-Sai or Emperor Go-Saiin, 111th emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (b. 1638)
1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer, violinist, and ballet dancer (b. 1632)
1727 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian baroque composer (b. 1661)
1801 – Umma Khan, ruler of the Avar Khanate (b. 1761)
1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and writer (b. 1749)
1841 – Tokugawa Ienari, 11th Tokugawa Shogun (b. 1773)
1852 – Auguste de Marmont, French general and nobleman (b. 1774)
1859 – Arif Hikmet Bey, Ottoman Shaykh al-Islam (b. 1786)
1881 – Big Nose George, United States outlaw and pet thief (b. ?)
1953 – Ahmet Şükrü Oğuz, Turkish politician (b. 1881)
1958 – Mike Todd, American film and theater producer (b. 1909)
1959 – Olga Knipper, Soviet actress (b. 1868)
1965 – Mario Bonnard, Italian actor, screenwriter, producer and film director (b. 1889)
1993 – Samiha Ayverdi, Turkish writer (b. 1905)
1993 – Vizier Orucov, National Hero of Azerbaijan (b. 1956)
1994 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, animator, filmmaker, and screenwriter (b. 1899)
2001 – Ali Rıza Çarmıklı, Turkish businessman and founder of Çarmıklı Holding (b. 1920)
2001 – Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish pilot (b. 1913)
2001 – William Hanna, American producer (b. 1910)
2004 – Ahmed Yasin, Palestinian politician and founder of Hamas (b. 1938)
2004 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, American astronomer (b. 1943)
2005 – Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 – Adwaitya, giant tortoise of the genus Aldabra (b. ca. 1750)
2007 – Kadir Has, Turkish businessman (b. 1921)
2007 – Münir Ülgür, Turkish academic (b. 1917)
2010 – Özhan Canaydın, Turkish businessman and former President of Galatasaray Sports Club (b. 1943)
2011 – Hamza Yanılmaz, Turkish politician and former Mayor of Elazig (b. 1963)
2011 – Nadia Barentin, French actress and comedian (b. 1936)
2012 – David Waltz, American computer scientist who contributed to the field of artificial intelligence (b. 1943)
2014 – Patrice “Pat” Wymore, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
2015 – Arkady Arkanov, Russian playwright and comedian (b. 1933)
2015 – Horst Buhtz, German football player and manager (b. 1923)
2015 – Peter Pišťanek, Slovak writer (b. 1960)
2016 – Richard Bradford, American actor (b. 1934)
2016 – Glen Dawson, American mountaineer, book collector, publisher, and environmentalist (b. 1912)
2016 – Santiago J. Erevia, American soldier (b. 1946)
2016 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician and bureaucrat (b. 1969)
2016 – Rita Gam, American film, theater and television actress, documentary filmmaker (b. 1927)
2017 – Dallas Green, American former baseball player, manager, and manager (b. 1934)
2017 – Peter “Pete” Hamilton, American speedway racing NASCAR rally (b. 1942)
2017 – Sven-Erik Magnusson, Swedish singer and musician (b. 1942)
2017 – Tomas Milian, Cuban-born Italian-American actor and singer (b. 1933)
2018 – René Houseman, Argentine football player (b. 1953)
2018 – Jan Kantůrek, Czech translator and writer (b. 1948)
2018 – Daryus Shayegan, one of the most important thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Near East (b. 1935)
2019 – Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (b. 1929)
2019 – June Harding, American actress (b. 1937)
2019 – César Lévano, Peruvian journalist, writer, poet and educator (b. 1926)
2019 – Scott Walker, American singer, musician, and record producer (b. 1943)
2020 – Germà Colón, Spanish linguist, educator and philosopher (b. 1928)
2020 – Benito Joanet, Spanish football player and manager (b. 1935)
2020 – Serena Liu, Taiwanese dancer and actress (b. 1975)
2020 – José María Loizaga Viguri, Spanish businessman (b. 1936)
2020 – Mike Longo, American jazz pianist, composer, and writer (b. 1937)
2021 – Henrique do Rego Almeida, Brazilian businessman and politician (b. 1936)
2021 – Elgin Baylor is an American former basketball player (b. 1934)
2021 – Susana Canales, Spanish actress (b. 1933)
2021 – Lorna Irungu, Kenyan television presenter and journalist (b. 1970)
2021 – Alan Slough, English professional former football player (b. 1947)

Holidays and special occasions

world Water Day
World Children's Poems Day
Emergency Medical Technicians and Technicians Day
Withdrawal of French troops from Feke, Adana (1922)