April 22
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April 22 is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 252 days remaining after April 22 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1451 – Isabella I of Castile (d. 1504)
- 1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
- 1707 – Henry Fielding, English writer (d. 1754)
- 1724 – Immanuel Kant, Prussian philosopher (d. 1804)
- 1766 – Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
- 1812 – Solomon Caesar Malan, orientalist (d. 1894)
- 1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
- 1852 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
- 1854 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer (d. 1943)
- 1868 – Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
- 1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Soviet-Russian Communist revolutionary and political leader (d. 1924)
- 1873 – Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945)
- 1873 – Luigi Lucheni, Italian anarchist (d. 1910)
- 1876 – Robert Bárány, Austrian Nobel Prize winner in medicine (d. 1936)
- 1881 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
- 1891 – Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
- 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
- 1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (d. 1967)
- 1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten, Swedish royal, father of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (d. 1947)
- 1906 – Eddie Albert, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1910 – Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
- 1912 – Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto (d. 1953)
- 1914 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
- 1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (d. 1999)
- 1917 – Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (d. 1992)
- 1919 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist (d. 2001)
- 1922 – Charles Mingus, musician (d. 1979)
- 1922 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (d. 1973)
- 1923 – Bettie Page, pin-up model (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Aaron Spelling, television producer, writer (d. 2006)
- 1926 – James Stirling, British architect (d. 1992)
- 1926 – Charlotte Rae, American actress
- 1936 – Glen Campbell, American musician
- 1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor
- 1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American composer, arranger (d. 2000)
- 1939 – Jason Miller, American playwright (d. 2001)
- 1943 – Louise Glück, American poet
- 1944 – Steve Fossett, American millionaire and adventurer (d. 2007)
- 1946 – John Waters, American filmmaker
- 1950 – Peter Frampton, English musician
- 1951 – Robin Bartlett, American actress
- 1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American erotic actress (d. 2009)
- 1954 – Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
- 1957 – Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland
- 1959 – Ryan Stiles, Canadian-American actor, comedian
- 1960 – Mart Laar, former Prime Minister of Estonia
- 1967 – Sheryl Lee, American actress
- 1969 – Dion Dublin, English footballer
- 1971 – Eric Mabius, American actor
- 1974 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist for System of a Down
- 1977 – Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer
- 1979 – Zoltan Gera, Hungarian footballer
- 1982 – Kaka, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Amelle Berrabah, English singer (Sugababes)
- 1984 – Michelle Ryan, English actress
- 1986 – Amber Heard, American actress
- 1987 – David Luiz, Brazilian footballer
- 1987 – Mikel John Obi, Nigerian footballer
- 1990 – Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler
[change] Deaths
- 296 – Pope Caius
- 536 – Pope Agapetus I
- 1592 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
- 1672 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
- 1699 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (b. 1646)
- 1758 – Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
- 1806 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
- 1833 – Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
- 1892 – Edouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823)
- 1896 – Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
- 1908 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
- 1925 – André Caplet, French composer (b. 1878)
- 1930 – Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet and novelist {b. 1866)
- 1933 – Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
- 1945 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
- 1946 – Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)
- 1951 – Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
- 1968 – Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
- 1978 – Will Geer, American actor and activist (b. 1902)
- 1980 – Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (b. 1902)
- 1983 – Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (b. 1903)
- 1984 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
- 1986 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer and philosopher (b. 1907)
- 1994 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
- 1995 – Maggie Kuhn, American activist (b. 1905)
- 1996 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
- 2002 – Linda Lovelace, American actress (b. 1949)
- 2003 – Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912)
- 2003 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
- 2004 – Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)
- 2005 – Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish artist and sculptor (b. 1924)
- 2009 – Jack Cardiff, English director (b. 1914)
- 2009 – Ken Annakin, English director (b. 1914)
[change] Events
- 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.
- 1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England after the death of his father.
- 1529 – Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
- 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
- 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
- 1889 – Oklahoma land rush: US President Benjamin Harrison opens the Unassigned Lands in what is now central Oklahoma to white settlement.
- 1898 – Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
- 1913 – Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publications in Saint Petersburg.
- 1914 – Babe Ruth, age 19, pitches his first professional game for the minor league Baltimore Orioles.
- 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
- 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- 1943 – Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
- 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia area of New Guinea.
- 1945 – World War II: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
- 1946 – The first installment of the popular Japanese comic strip, Sazae-san, is published in the Fukunichi Shimbun.
- 1954 – Red Scare: Army-McCarthy Hearings begin.
- 1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season.
- 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
- 1971 – John Kerry, dressed in combat fatigues, testifies on his views of the Vietnam War before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts antiwar protests in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
- 1975 – Barbara Walters signs a five-year $5 million contract with the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), becoming the highest paid television newsperson.
- 1978 – The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live.
- 1979 – Brent Mydland performs his first show with the Grateful Dead at Spartan Stadium, San Jose.
- 1993 – In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.
- 1993 – The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
- 1996 – Cisco Systems acquires StrataCom for $4B
- 1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria; 93 villagers killed.
- 1997 – A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages. One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 rebels are slain.
- 2000 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
- 2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
- 2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
- 2005 – Mordechai Vanunu installed as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
- 2010 – Deepwater Horizon oil spill: After an explosion two days earlier, and a subsequent fire, the BP and Transocean operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon sinks. 11 people are killed, and the worst oil spill in US history is caused.
[change] Observances
- Arbor Day in parts of the United States
- Earth Day
- Discovery Day (Brazil)
