About the day » Monday March 22, 2010Calender converter

• Emile Victor van den Eijnde (79), Vught
• Armar Arjens Tjalsma
• Bianka Trouerbach (53), Cave Creek, Maricopa, AZ (USA)
• Caroline Stoltz (92), Dickinson, Stark, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Bosker (86), Delfzijl
• Anna Maria Gerharda Leverink (90), Hengelo
• Adriana Petronella Postma (89), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertha Oudman (67)
• Carmen Ingrid Metselaar (54), Den Haag
• Amerath Cleopatra Conolly (84), Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

• 1985 » Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
• 1985 » Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
• 1986 » David Choi, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1986 » Dexter Fowler, American baseball player
• 1987 » Ike Davis, American baseball player
• 1987 » Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist († 2013)
• 1987 » Liam Doran, British rally cross driver
• 1989 » J. J. Watt, American football player
• 1989 » Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
• 1989 » Tyler Oakley, American internet celebrity

• 2008 » Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (b. 1943)
• 2010 » James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 2011 » Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (b. 1920)
• 2011 » Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2012 » David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2012 » Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2012 » John Payton, American lawyer and activist (b. 1946)
• 2012 » Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Mickey Sullivan, American baseball player and coach (b. 1932)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• January 14 » Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
• February 15 » Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
• June 16 » Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
• August 8 » China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
• September 19 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
• December 22 » The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

The temperature on March 22, 2010 was between 0.7 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.