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(Sunday, March 22, 1987, 9:00 p.m. EST) — The tugboat Break of Dawn, towing the barge Mobro 4000 loaded with 3,168 tons of refuse, set sail today from Islip, New York, bound for a pilot program in Morehead City, North Carolina, to be turned into methane.

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(Saturday, March 22, 1947) — Viscount Mountbatten, who on March 24, 1947, will become the twenty-ninth and presumably the last British Viceroy of India, arrived today in New Delhi by special plane from London to oversee the transition of British India to independence no later than June 30, 1948.

(Tuesday, March 21, 1967) — Charles Manson, who had spent more than half of his 32 years in prisons and other institutions, was paroled today from McNeil Island Corrections Center near Steilacoom, Washington, after serving seven years for transporting women across state lines for the purpose of prostitution and forging checks.