Tuesday, March 22, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 22
1638:Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by a religious court because of her dissenting beliefs about Christianity that contradicted Puritan orthodoxy. Hutchinson, her family and their supporters will move to Rhode Island, settling near religious freedom advocate Roger Williams's Providence Plantations.

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves a bill that allows the sale of wine and beer containing less than 3.2 percent alcohol. The Beer and Wine Revenue Act will be followed by the passage of the 21st Amendment, ending Prohibition, in December 1933.

1963: The Beatles release their debut LP album, Please Please Me, in the United Kingdom. The album is renamed Introducing ... the Beatles for its release in the United States in January 1964.
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