TODAY IN HISTORY

Thursday, March  22, 2012 AP Highlight in History:  On March 22, 1895, in what is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie – the one-minute "Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory" – to an invited audience in Paris.   AP Photo
On this date in: 1765 Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies. 1882 Congress outlawed polygamy. 1894 Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played in Montreal. That city's Amateur Athletic Association beat the Ottawa Capitals 3-1. 1941 The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state went into operation. 1945 The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. 1946 The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end. 1962 Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut at age 19 in the musical "I Can Get it For You Wholesale" at the Shubert Theater. 1963 The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," was released in Great Britain. AP Photo 1965 Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home," his first featuring electric guitar, was released. 1972 Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. 1990 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil. 1991 High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter, N.H., of murder-conspiracy. 1995 Colin Ferguson was sentenced to life in prison for killing six people on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in 1993. 1997 Tara Lipinski of the United States became the youngest women's world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months. 2006 The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain. 2010 Google announced it would stop censoring search results on its site in China by shifting it from the mainland to Hong Kong.		Video Highlights of This Day in History Today's Birthdays: Actress Reese Witherspoon turns 36 years old today. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello Name Profession Age Stephen Sondheim Composer, lyricist 82 Orrin Hatch U.S. senator, R-Utah 78 M. Emmet Walsh Actor 77 Jeremy Clyde Singer (Chad and Jeremy) 71 George Benson Jazz guitarist, singer 69 James Patterson Author 65 Wolf Blitzer Broadcast journalist 64 Andrew Lloyd Webber Composer 64 Bob Costas Sportscaster 60 Lena Olin Actress 57 Stephanie Mills R&B singer, actress 55 Matthew Modine Actor 53 Cole Hauser Actor 37 Kellie Williams Actress 36 Ike Davis Baseball player 25 Actor William Shatner turns 81 years old today. AP Photo/Matt Sayles