Today:
1312: Pope Clement V issued the papal bull Vox in excelso, which officially suppressed the Order of the Knights Templar.
1622: The Powhatan Confederacy led a coordinated series of surprise attacks against English settlements in Virginia, an event often referred to as the Jamestown Massacre.
1765: The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, the first direct tax imposed on the American colonies to help pay for British troops stationed in North America.
1894: The first championship game for the Stanley Cup was played in Montreal, with the Montreal Hockey Club defeating the Ottawa Hockey Club.
1933: The Dachau concentration camp, the first Nazi concentration camp in Germany, was opened near Munich.
1945: The Arab League was founded in Cairo, Egypt, by representatives from Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
1963: The Beatles released their debut studio album, Please Please Me, in the United Kingdom.
1972: The United States Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification.
1995: Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov returned to Earth after spending a record 437 days in space aboard the Mir space station.
2016: A series of coordinated terrorist bombings occurred at the Brussels Airport and the Maalbeek metro station in Belgium.
Retraction: Jack Burns is still alive. The crazy bastard turned 77 years old yesterday.