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HMS Princess Royal was built for the British Royal Navy before the First World War in response to the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy and significantly improved on the speed, armament, and armour of earlier battlecruisers. Laid down in 1912 and commissioned in 1913, Princess Royal served in the Battle of Heligoland Bight a month after the war began. During the Battle of Dogger Bank, Princess Royal scored few hits, although one crippled the German armoured cruiser Blücher. Shortly afterward, she became the flagship of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron, under the command of Rear-Admiral Osmond Brock. Princess Royal was moderately damaged during the Battle of Jutland and required a month and a half of repairs. Apart from providing distant support during the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1917, the ship spent the rest of the war on uneventful patrols of the North Sea. She was sold for breaking up as scrap in 1922. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battlecruisers of the world.)

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Samia Suluhu (pictured) becomes the first female president of Tanzania, following the death of John Magufuli at the age of 61.
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In sailing, the America's Cup concludes with Team New Zealand beating Italy's Luna Rossa Challenge.
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March 22: World Water Day

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106 – The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.
1638 – Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her participation in the Antinomian Controversy.
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.
1871 – William Woods Holden (pictured), Governor of North Carolina, became the first U.S. state governor to be removed from office through impeachment.
2004 – Palestinian imam Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a founder and the spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed by an Israeli missile as he left early morning prayers.

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Mary Pickford

Canadian-American motion-picture actress Mary Pickford started her film career in the United States in 1909, having began acting on stage in 1900. During the silent-film era, she became one of the first great celebrities of the cinema and a popular icon known to the public as "America's Sweetheart". Initially with the Biograph Company, she moved to the Independent Motion Picture Company in 1911, then briefly to the Majestic Film Company later that same year, followed by a return to Biograph in 1912. After appearing in over 150 short films during her years with these studios, she began working in features with Zukor's Famous Players Film Company, a studio that eventually became part of Paramount Pictures. By 1916, Pickford's popularity had reached the point that she was awarded a contract making her a partner with Zukor and allowing her to produce her own films. Following the release of Secrets (1933), Pickford retired from acting in motion pictures, but remained active as a producer for several years afterwards. (Full list...)

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