Notable Historical Events on April 22nd
April 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
296 |
St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
536 |
St. Agapetus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1056 |
Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye |
1073 |
Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII |
1145 |
19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
1164 |
Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III |
1370 |
Building begins of Bastille fortress in Paris |
1500 |
Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal |
1521 |
French King Francois I declares war on Spain |
1526 |
1st slave revolt occurs in SC |
1529 |
Treaty of Saragosa: Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere |
1648 |
English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed |
1659 |
Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament |
1671 |
King Charles II sits in on English parliament |
1674 |
Netherlands & Munster sign peace treaty |
1676 |
Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded |
1677 |
Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet |
1692 |
Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft |
1722 |
19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed |
1728 |
Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus" premieres in Paris |
1769 |
Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress |
1793 |
Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US |
1804 |
Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola |
1809 |
Battle at Eckmuhl - Napoleon beats Austria Archduke Karl |
1817 |
Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight |
1823 |
Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London |
1823 |
R J Tyers patents roller skates |
1838 |
English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing |
1864 |
US mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust") |
1876 |
1st NL game, Boston Braves beat Phila Athletics 6-5 |
1876 |
Tsjaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet |
1876 |
Phila Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run |
1884 |
Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos) |
1884 |
US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
1889 |
Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner" |
1893 |
Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo |
1893 |
Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time |
1897 |
NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active) |
1898 |
1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship |
1898 |
Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0 |
1898 |
Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0 |
1898 |
Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry |
1898 |
US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors |
1903 |
American Power Boat Association forms |
1903 |
NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950 |
1905 |
Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam |
1906 |
10th anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece |
1906 |
New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls |
1908 |
Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba |
1913 |
Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania |
1914 |
Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win |
1915 |
1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I |
1915 |
The Second Battle of Ypres begins on the Western Front |
1915 |
NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time |
1916 |
France battles at Fort Douaumont |
1916 |
Karl Spindler scuttles the Aud near Daunt's Rock, to prevent its cargo of 20,000 rifles destined for Irish republicans falling into enemy hands |
1916 |
Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers Eóin MacNeill issues the Countermanding order in Dublin to try to stop what would become the Easter Rising |
1922 |
South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR |
1924 |
Hague Chambers of Commerce forms |
1926 |
Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security |
1927 |
1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E |
1930 |
US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty |
1930 |
British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong in Bengal province, British India leaving 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries dead. |
1931 |
Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty |
1933 |
Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address |
1937 |
NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike |
1940 |
Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable |
1943 |
German counter attack in North-Tunisia |
1943 |
RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea |
1944 |
Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea |
1944 |
Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet at Salzburg |
1945 |
Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated |
1945 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
1946 |
SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms |
1947 |
1st NBA Championship: Phila Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 4 games to 2 |
1948 |
WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1951 |
Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC |
1952 |
1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada |
1952 |
Eugene Ionesco's "Les Chaises" premieres in NYC |
1954 |
Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government |
1954 |
NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule |
1954 |
US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin |
1954 |
USSR joins UNESCO |
1955 |
KC Athletic's 1st game, beat Tigers 6-2 |
1956 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
1957 |
All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies |
1959 |
Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings |
1959 |
Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit, 10 walks, & 3 errors |
1961 |
Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria |
1962 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open |
1962 |
NY Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season |
1962 |
Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season |
1962 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
1963 |
Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada |
1964 |
World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens |
1966 |
Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4 |
1966 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1967 |
Martial Law goes into effect in Greece |
1969 |
1st human eye transplant performed |
1969 |
Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
1969 |
Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing |
1969 |
Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Westminster, makes a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons concerning the situation in Northern Ireland |
1970 |
"Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1970 |
1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources |
1970 |
Flat Earth celebrated |
1970 |
NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher |
1970 |
NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19 |
1970 |
Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings |
1971 |
Soyuz 10 launched |
1972 |
Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon |
1972 |
An 11-year-old boy killed by a rubber bullet fired by the British Army in Belfast; he was the first to die from a rubber bullet impact |
1974 |
Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show |
1975 |
Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead |
1976 |
Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor |
1976 |
Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation |
1977 |
Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel |
1978 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony |
1979 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament |
1979 |
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada |
1981 |
10,000 copper workers in Chile strike |
1981 |
Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike |
1981 |
Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts |
1981 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1981 |
Largest US bank robbery (Tucson Ariz), more than $3.3 million stolen |
1982 |
Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season |
1982 |
Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton [03/23] |
1983 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1983 |
Rangers 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles win series 4-2 |
1983 |
Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth |
1983 |
Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy) |
1983 |
Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax) |
1984 |
Vicki Fergon wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
1986 |
Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row |
1986 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1987 |
Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed |
1988 |
Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana) |
1988 |
NJ Devil Patrik Sundstrom sets NHL playoff record of 8 pts in a playoff game (hat trick & 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals |
1989 |
"Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 perfs |
1990 |
"Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances |
1990 |
Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months |
1991 |
Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95 |
1991 |
Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park |
1991 |
Intel releases 486SX chip |
1991 |
Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show |
1991 |
Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens |
1992 |
"High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" closes at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs |
1992 |
6.0 earthquake in California |
1992 |
Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico |
1992 |
Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists |
1993 |
"Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances |
1993 |
Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78 |
1993 |
Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC |
1993 |
Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox |
1993 |
The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released. |
1994 |
7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda |
1994 |
Borge Ousland reaches North pole |
1994 |
Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500 |
1994 |
In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made |
1994 |
Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1994 |
Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam |
1995 |
General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby |
1995 |
George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas |
1997 |
Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria - 93 villagers killed. |
1997 |
The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru. |
1998 |
Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States. |
1998 |
33rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait wins |
2000 |
In a pre-dawn 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. |
2003 |
Patrick Roy plays his final career NHL game |
2004 |
Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people. |
2006 |
243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra. |
2006 |
Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War. |
2012 |
30 year old woman collapses and dies during London Marathon |
2013 |
6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia |
2013 |
Manchester United defeat Aston Villa to claim the 2012/2013 English Premier League |
2014 |
David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United |
2016 |
FBI paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino iPhone |
2016 |
Google honors Prince with 'Purple Rain' home page |
2016 |
VW reaches US deal in emissions scandal |
2017 |
Power outage cripples San Francisco for hours |
2017 |
Justice Department warns 9 'sanctuary' jurisdictions they may lose funding |
2017 |
Cassini spacecraft to make last flyby with Saturn's Titan on Saturday |
2018 |
Oakland's Manaea tosses no-hitter against red-hot Boston |
2018 |
4 Palestinians killed, including teen boy and disabled man, by Israeli snipers in Gaza |
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