Major Events
- 1500Pedro Álvares Cabral is thefirst European to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal
- 1915 First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies at Ypres in World War I[1]
- 1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- 1994 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
- 2006 Nepali security forces open fire on Pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra, injuring hundreds. The protesters go on to secure the restoration of Parliament and a federal state.
- 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
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Apr 22 in Film & TV
- 1954 US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin
- 1976Barbara Walters becomes the first female US nightly network news anchor (ABC News)
Apr 22 in Music
- 1876Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet "Swan Lake"
Apr 22 in Sport
- 1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) first MLB game; lose 3-1 before 11,950 vs Washington Senators at American League Park
Did You Know?
More than $3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the then largest US bank robbery in history
Isabella I of Castile
Immanuel Kant
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Nabokov
Robert Oppenheimer
Eddie Albert
Bettie Page
Glen Campbell
Jack Nicholson
Amber Heard
Daniel Johns
Kaká
Marshawn Lynch
Fun Fact About April 22
World's largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made by BonBon, a candy factory in Home-Olstrup, Denmark; record later broken
Famous Weddings
- 1887 Business magnateAndrew Carnegie (51) weds Louise Whitfield (30) in NYC, New York
- 1939 Actor and naval officer of World War IIDouglas Fairbanks Jr (29) weds supermarket magnate Huntington Hartford's former wife Mary Lee Hartford
- 1995 "Extra" TV co-host Arthel Neville (32) weds Carolina Panther running back Derrick Lassic (25) at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
Famous Divorces
- 1959 ActorMarlon Brando and actress Anna Kashfi divorce
- 1993 Tennis greatBjörn Borg divorces Loredana Berte
More April 22 Weddings
Miguel de Cervantes
Anne Bonny
Henry Royce
Ansel Adams
Emilio G. Segrè
Richard NixonArticles, Photos and Quiz
Portuguese Discover Brazil
Pedro Álvares Cabral sees the land that would later be known as Brazil for the first time
April 22, 1500
Richard Nixon, The Only US President to Resign
Richard Nixon became the only US President ever to resign from office, brought down by scandal over the Watergate office break-in and its attempted cover-up.
April 22, 1994
Weekly Quiz for April 20 - 26
What nationality was WWI fighter ace The Red Baron? What was Elvis Presley's 1st #1 hit record? What country is the Chernobyl nuclear power station located in?
