Today in History - History - April 22nd

1809Battle at Eckmuhl - Napoleon beats Austria Archduke Karl

1648English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed

1976Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation

2003Patrick Roy plays his final career NHL game

1995George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas

1969Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

199833rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait wins

1914Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win

1963Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada

1994Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1904[Julius] Robert Oppenheimer, New York City New York, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project

1979Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)

1937Jack Nicholson, NJ, actor (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining)

1906Eddie Albert, [Heimberger], Rock Island Illinois, actor (Roman Holiday, Green Acres)

1923Bettie Page, Nashville Tennessee, American Playboy pin-up model

1870Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist and Premier of Russia

1887Business magnate Andrew Carnegie (51) weds Louise Whitfield (30) in NYC, New York

2000NFL football player Emmitt Smith (31) weds Miss Virginia USA beauty queen Patricia Southall (29)

1994Richard Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of a stroke at 81

1989Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium, astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton), dies at 84 of a heart attack

1782Anne Bonny, Irish pirate, dies in prison (date is approximate)

1993Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66