On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)

In 1933, during the Prohibition Era, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which allowed the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol content of 3.2%. (Prohibition would be fully repealed nine months later with the ratification of the 21st Amendment.)

In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation. It remains the largest capacity power station in the United States.

In 1963, the Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was released in the United Kingdom on the Parlophone record label.

In 1993, Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.