| 31901 | March 22 | Event | 1984 – Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded. |
| 31902 | March 22 | Event | 1989 – Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player's skate accidentally slits his throat. |
| 31903 | March 22 | Event | 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft. |
| 31904 | March 22 | Event | 1992 – Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election. |
| 31905 | March 22 | Event | 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path. |
| 31906 | March 22 | Event | 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space. |
| 31907 | March 22 | Event | 1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion. |
| 31908 | March 22 | Event | 1997 – The Comet Hale–Bopp has its closest approach to Earth. |
| 31909 | March 22 | Event | 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles. |
| 31910 | March 22 | Event | 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox. |
| 31911 | March 22 | Event | 2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand. |
| 31912 | March 22 | Event | 2013 – American rock band, My Chemical Romance, announced their break-up on their website. |
| 31913 | March 22 | Event | 2014 – Forty-three people are killed in a mudflow near Oso, Washington. |
| 31914 | March 22 | Event | 2014 – At least 251 people die when a boat capsizes in Lake Albert. |
| 31915 | March 22 | Birth | 841 – Bernard Plantapilosa, French son of Bernard of Septimania (d. 885) |
| 31916 | March 22 | Birth | 875 – William I, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918) |
| 31917 | March 22 | Birth | 1212 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235) |
| 31918 | March 22 | Birth | 1366 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (d. 1399) |
| 31919 | March 22 | Birth | 1394 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1449) |
| 31920 | March 22 | Birth | 1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519) |
| 31891 | March 22 | Event | 1943 – World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces. |
| 31892 | March 22 | Event | 1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt. |
| 31893 | March 22 | Event | 1954 – Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens. |
| 31894 | March 22 | Event | 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser |
| 31895 | March 22 | Event | 1963 – The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom. |
| 31896 | March 22 | Event | 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. |
| 31897 | March 22 | Event | 1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives. |
| 31898 | March 22 | Event | 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels. |
| 31899 | March 22 | Event | 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| 31900 | March 22 | Event | 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3. |