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Anke Gowda displaying a book from his collection

• ... that an Indian sugar-factory timekeeper (pictured) founded a library with more than two million books?
• ... that the Delta River is likely older than the mountain range it cuts across?
• ... that Carlos Meléndez ran for both president and vice president in the 1903 Salvadoran presidential election?
• ... that the 1955 play Twelve Angry Men is often confused with a later version based on the 1957 film?
• ... that the nearly 3,000-year-old Temple of Awwam was the site of a suicide bombing in 2007?
• ... that, when Jim Fletcher appeared as Jay Gatsby in Gatz, his father – a physician with no acting experience – portrayed Gatsby's father?
• ... that the Vau i Dejës Hydroelectric Power Station generated more than half of Albania's electricity soon after its completion?
• ... that Charles Thau carried a machine-gun bullet in his cheek for six years after the Battle of Berlin before a dentist discovered it?
• ... that the song "Highness" has been compared to a pillow fight?

March 22:

Comet Hale–Bopp

• 106 – The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.
• 1765 – The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
• 1934 – In golf, the first Masters Tournament was held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, United States.
• 1943 – World War II: Almost the entire population of the village of Khatyn, in present-day Belarus, were massacred by Ukrainian and Belarusian Nazi collaborators.
• 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp (pictured) reached its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.