"I do not get my ideas from people on the street. If you look at faces on the street, what do you see? Nothing. Just boredom."

"I do not get my ideas from people on the street. If you look at faces on the street, what do you see? Nothing. Just boredom."
Marcel Marceau.
Today is Wednesday, March 22, the 81st day of 2006. There are 284 days left in the year. On this date in 1765, Britain enacts the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act is repealed the following year.)
In 1638, religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1820, U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur is killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington. In 1882, Congress outlaws polygamy. In 1933, during Prohibition, President Roosevelt signs a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal. In 1941, the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state goes into operation. In 1945, the Arab League is formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. In 1946, the British mandate in Transjordan comes to an end. In 1972, Congress sends the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. (It falls three states short of the 38 needed for approval.) In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act, falls to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1986, world financier Michele Sindona dies two days after ingesting cyanide in his Italian prison cell in what authorities later rule a suicide.