1989
Mar 22, Ann Harrison (15) was abducted as she waited for a school bus in front of her home in Raytown, Missouri. African-Americans Roderick Nunley and Michael Taylor forced her into a stolen car, raped and stabbed her to death. They left her body in the boot of the car. Taylor and Nunley were convicted and sentenced to death. In 2006 their execution was postponed pending a decision on whether lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. On Feb 26, 2014, Taylor was executed.

1991
Mar 22, High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of murder-conspiracy. She was sentenced to life in prison.

1996
Mar 22, Shannon Lucid, astronaut, went into space on the shuttle Atlantis. She transferred to the Russian Mir space station and broke the US space endurance record of 115 days on 7/15/96.

1997
Mar 22, A day after a suicide bomber killed three women in Tel Aviv, Israeli troops clashed with hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron.

1999
Mar 22, A woman, held as a sex hostage, escaped from David Ray and Cindy Hendy near Elephant Butte Lake, NM. Ray and Hendy were arrested on charges of kidnapping and torture and then other reports emerged that 4-6 other victims had been mutilated and dumped into the lake.

2000
Mar 22, The federal government agreed to pay a record $508 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by some 1,100 women at the now-defunct US Information Agency in 1977. Another $23 million was for back pay, interest and retirement benefits. It was the largest-ever settlement of a federal sex discrimination case.

2001
Mar 22, Sabiha Gokcen, Turkey's 1st woman pilot and the adopted daughter of Ataturk, died. Armenians held that she was Armenian by birth.

2005
Mar 22, Anna Ayala of Las Vegas claimed that she bit into a piece of human finger while eating chili at a Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, Ca. Ayala was arrested on Apr 21 on suspicion of attempted grand theft. Police later reported the finger came from an acquaintance of Ayala’s husband, who lost it in an industrial accident. Ayala and her husband Jaime Placencia pleaded guilty to all charges on Sep 9. In 2006 both were sentenced to 9 years in prison and ordered to pay $21.2 million in restitution to Wendy’s Int’l.

2007
Mar 22, In Hawaii Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a mansion, courtesy of billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto, a Japanese real estate mogul, who is handing over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
2008
Mar 22, Egyptian and European archeologists announced they had discovered a giant statue of Queen Tiy, the wife of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III, on the south Egypt site of the Colossi of Memnon.

2009
Mar 22, British reality television star Jade Goody (27) died in her sleep, after a very public battle with cervical cancer.

2010
Mar 22, In Maryland Renee Bowman (44) was sentenced to 2 consecutive life terms for killing her two adopted daughters and storing their bodies in a freezer. She had continued to collect subsidies paid to adoptive parents of special needs children.

2010
Mar 22, In Mexico Paulette Gebara Farah (4), a disabled girl, was reported missing by her parents. On March 30 Her body was found under the mattress of her bed at her wealthy parents' apartment on the outskirts of Mexico City. On May 21 federal investigators she had smothered accidentally and was there the whole time police and family were hunting for her.

2014
Mar 22, The UN Commission on the Status of Women approved a 45-page document to promote equality for women that reaffirms the sexual and reproductive rights of all women and endorses sex education for adolescents.

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