Important Events From This day in History April 22nd. Find Out What happened 22nd April This Day in History on your birthday. Also you can find some answers for the following questions;
Which major historical events happened on April 22?
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What happened in history on April 22nd?
Year | Name |
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2019 | A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes the main Philippines island of Luzon, killing at least 8 people. |
2016 | The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming. |
2014 | More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province. |
2013 | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements. |
2008 | The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service. |
2005 | Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record. |
2004 | Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people. |
2000 | In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami. |
1997 | Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed. |
1993 | Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham. |
1992 | In a series of explosions in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless. |
1983 | The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries. |
1977 | Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic. |
1972 | Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. |
1970 | The first Earth Day is celebrated. |
1969 | British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. |
1954 | Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings begins. |
1951 | Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong. |
1948 | Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces. |
1945 | World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape. |
1945 | World War II: Führerbunker: 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. |
1944 | The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater. |
1944 | World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea. |
1944 | World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station. |
1930 | The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. |
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. |
1906 | The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens. |
1898 | Spanish-American War: The USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship. |
1889 | At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000. |
1876 | The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of the MLB. |
1864 | The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency. |
1836 | Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity. |
1809 | The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg. |
1622 | The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island. |
1529 | Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas. |
1519 | Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. |
1500 | Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. |
238 | Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne. |
Here is a random list who born on April 22. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1891 | Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965) |
1918 | Mickey Vernon, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008) |
1972 | Willie Robertson, American hunter and businessman |
1910 | Norman Steenrod, American mathematician and academic (d. 1971) |
1977 | Mark van Bommel, Dutch footballer |
1953 | Valeri Bondarenko, Estonian footballer and coach |
1969 | Dion Dublin, English footballer and sportscaster |
1966 | Mickey Morandini, American baseball player and manager |
1987 | David Luiz, Brazilian footballer |
1970 | Erkki Bahovski, Estonian journalist |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 22. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1945 | Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (b. 1867) |
2013 | Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936) |
2005 | Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (b. 1915) |
536 | Pope Agapetus I |
2012 | Bill Granger, American author (b. 1941) |
1989 | Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) |
2012 | George Rathmann, American chemist, biologist, and businessman (b. 1927) |
1355 | Eleanor of Woodstock, countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (b. 1318) |
1950 | Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (b. 1895) |
1892 | ÿdouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (b. 1823) |