Today in history—March 22

1638: Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  She will move to found the first settlement on Aquidneck Island, the name of which will later be changed to “Rhode” Island.

1832: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who gave up legal practice for the more lucrative world of court politics, dies at Weimar, Germany. His most widely quoted line is, “Er kann mich im Arsche lecken,” or roughly, “He can kiss my ass.”

1887: Leonard “Chico” Marx is born at New York City, the eldest of five brothers. As manager of the Marx Brothers, he’ll go on to negotiate the first Hollywood contract guaranteeing a performer a share of a film’s gross profits.

1908: Louis Dearborn LaMoore (later “L’Amour”), whose 100+ novels will sell 225 million copies and form the basis of 30 motion pictures, is born at Jamestown, North Dakota.

1930: Marion Gordon “Pat” Robertson (Yale Law 1955) is born at Lexington, Virginia. He will parlay a $37,500 investment in a bankrupt UHF television station into the Christian Broadcasting Network (70 languages in 200 countries), will found Regent University in Virginia, and will be one of two ordained Baptist ministers to run for President in 1988.

1934: Senator Orrin Grant Hatch (Pittsburgh Law 1962) is born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1945: U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Hessin Clarke dies at San Diego, California. A highly regarded railroad lawyer, he gave up his Court post in 1922 to campaign for U.S. membership in the League of Nations.

1954: The London Gold Market, which has been closed since 1939, reopens.

1973: Seventy-three year-old Karl Wallenda falls to his death while walking a tightrope between two hotels (without a net) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1993: Intel Corporation ships the first “Pentium” computer chips.