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22 Apr 1056
Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye
22 Apr 1073
Pope Alexander II buried and Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
22 Apr 1145
19th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet
22 Apr 1164
Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III
22 Apr 1370
Building begins on the Bastille fortress in Paris
22 Apr 1526
1st slave revolt in the American colonies occurs in South Carolina
22 Apr 1529
Treaty of Saragosa Spain and Portugal divide eastern hemisphere
22 Apr 1659
Lord Protector Richard Cromwell disbands English parliament
22 Apr 1676
Battle of Etna - Netherlands and Spain vs France M de Ruyter fatally wounded
22 Apr 1677
Battle at Catania between French & Dutch fleet
22 Apr 1728
Pierre de Marivaux Le Triomphe de Plutus premieres in Paris
22 Apr 1769
Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XVs official mistress
22 Apr 1793
President Washington attends opening of Ricketts 1st circus in US
22 Apr 1817
Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight
22 Apr 1838
English steamship Sirius docks in NYC after crossing the Atlantic first transatlantic steam passenger service
22 Apr 1864
US mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of In God We Trust)
22 Apr 1876
1st NL game Boston Braves beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5
22 Apr 1876
Philadelphia Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseballs 1st run
22 Apr 1884
Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mths)
22 Apr 1884
US recognizes King Leopold IIs Congo Free State
22 Apr 1889
A 1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for white colonial settlement in Oklahoma officially starts at 12pm
22 Apr 1893
Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for 3rd time
22 Apr 1897
NYC Jewish newspaper Forward begins publishing (still active)
22 Apr 1898
1st Spanish-American War action USS Nashville takes enemy ship
22 Apr 1898
Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
22 Apr 1898
Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
22 Apr 1898
Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
22 Apr 1898
US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
22 Apr 1903
Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game in New York at Hilltop Park vs Washington Senators lose 3-1 before 11950
22 Apr 1905
Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam
22 Apr 1906
New rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls
22 Apr 1908
Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba
22 Apr 1913
Montenegro troops march into Skoetari North-Albania
22 Apr 1915
1st military use of poison gas (chlorine by Germany) in WW I
22 Apr 1915
NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
22 Apr 1915
The Second Battle of Ypres begins on the Western Front n WW I
22 Apr 1916
Karl Spindler scuttles the Aud near Daunts Rock to prevent its cargo of 20000 rifles destined for Irish republicans falling into enemy hands
22 Apr 1916
Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers Ein MacNeill issues the Countermanding order in Dublin to try to stop what would become the Easter Rising
22 Apr 1922
South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR
22 Apr 1926
Persia Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security
22 Apr 1927
1st performance of Roger Sessions Symphony in E
22 Apr 1930
British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong Bengal province British India 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries killed
22 Apr 1933
Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address
22 Apr 1937
NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
22 Apr 1940
Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable
22 Apr 1943
RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
22 Apr 1945
Stanley Cup Final Olympia Stadium Detroit MI Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings 2-1 for a 4-3 series win Leafs lead series 3-0 but Wings recover to 3-3 to force a decider
22 Apr 1946
SED Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands party forms
22 Apr 1947
1st Basketball Association of America Finals Philadelphia Warriors beat Chicago Stags 83-80 to take inaugural series 4 games to 2
22 Apr 1948
WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
22 Apr 1952
1st atomic explosion on network news Nob Nevada
22 Apr 1952
Eugene Ionescos Les Chaises premieres in NYC
22 Apr 1954
NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule
22 Apr 1954
US Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings begin
22 Apr 1957
All NL teams intergates John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies
22 Apr 1959
Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6 in 1 inning Sox score 11 runs on 1 hit 10 walks & 3 errors
22 Apr 1961
Uprising of French parachutist of General Salan and Challe in Algeria
22 Apr 1962
NY Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season
22 Apr 1962
Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season
22 Apr 1962
Stanley Cup Final Chicago Stadium Chicago IL Dick Duff scores the winner as Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 for a 4-2 series victory
22 Apr 1964
Worlds Fair at Flushing Meadow Corona Park NY opens
22 Apr 1966
Atlanta Braves win their 1st game beating NY Mets 8-4
22 Apr 1969
Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
22 Apr 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
22 Apr 1970
Park opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
22 Apr 1970
First Earth Day celebrated founded by Gaylord Nelson
22 Apr 1970
NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
22 Apr 1970
NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres for a total of 19
22 Apr 1972
Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon
22 Apr 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
22 Apr 1978
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
22 Apr 1978
23rd Eurovision Song Contest Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta for Israel wins singing A-Ba-Ni-Bi in Paris
22 Apr 1981
Almost 1 million West German metal workers go on strike
22 Apr 1981
Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts
22 Apr 1981
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
22 Apr 1982
Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season
22 Apr 1983
Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
22 Apr 1983
Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
22 Apr 1986
Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
22 Apr 1988
Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)
22 Apr 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
22 Apr 1989
Welcome to the Club closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 performances
22 Apr 1990
Truly Blessed opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
22 Apr 1990
Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
22 Apr 1990
NFL Draft University of Illinois quarterback Jeff George first pick by Indianapolis Colts
22 Apr 1991
Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama kills 95
22 Apr 1991
Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park
22 Apr 1991
Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
22 Apr 1992
High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club closes at H Hayes NYC 14 performances
22 Apr 1992
Gas explodes in sewer kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico
22 Apr 1992
Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California kills 16 parachutists
22 Apr 1993
Whos Tommy opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
22 Apr 1993
Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
22 Apr 1993
Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
22 Apr 1993
Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
22 Apr 1993
The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.
22 Apr 1994
7000 Tutsis slaughtered by Hutu in the stadium at Kibuye Rwanda
22 Apr 1994
Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for 42500
22 Apr 1994
In Denmark the largest lollipop weighing 3011 pounds made
22 Apr 1995
General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby
22 Apr 1995
NFL Draft Penn State running back Ki-Jana Carter first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
22 Apr 1997
Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria - 93 villagers killed.
22 Apr 1997
The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima Peru.
22 Apr 1998
Disneys Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando Florida United States.
22 Apr 1999
Luis Garavito [The Beast Tribiln] Colombian serial killer described as the worlds worst serial killer (138-300 victims) apprehended
22 Apr 2000
In a pre-dawn raid federal agents seize six-year-old Elin Gonzlez from his relatives home in Miami Florida.
22 Apr 2000
The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom
22 Apr 2004
Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon North Korea killing up to 150 people.
22 Apr 2006
243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
22 Apr 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
22 Apr 2010
NFL Draft Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford first pick by St. Louis Rams
22 Apr 2012
30 year old woman collapses and dies during London Marathon
22 Apr 2013
6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod Russia
22 Apr 2013
Manchester United defeat Aston Villa to claim the 2012 English Premier League
22 Apr 2014
David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United
22 Apr 2016
Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5C
22 Apr 2018
Bus crash in North Korea kills 36 with most Chinese tourists
22 Apr 2018
Saudi-led coalition airstrike kills more than 20 at a wedding in northwestern Yemen
22 Apr 2018
Liverpools Egyptian soccer forward Mohamed Salah is named Professional Footballers Association Player of the Year
22 Apr 2018
Gunman opens fire at Waffle House in Nasville Tennessee killing four with James Shaw Jr. wrestling rifle from gunmans hands
22 Apr 1876
First official National League baseball game is played Boston Red Stockings beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds Philadelphia
22 Apr 1876
First National League game in baseball history played at Philadelphias Jefferson Street Grounds Boston Red Stockings beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5
22 Apr 1876
1st National League game Boston Braves beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5
22 Apr 1898
1st Spanish-American War action sees the USS Nashville capture a Spanish ship
22 Apr 1915
The Second Battle of Ypres begins on the Western Front in WW I
22 Apr 1993
Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
22 Apr 1994
7000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye Rwanda
22 Apr 1994
Borge Ousland is the 1st person on a solo and unsupported journey to reach the North Pole
22 Apr 2018
Gunman opens fire at a Waffle House in Nashville Tennessee killing four before James Shaw Jr. wrestled the rifle from the gunmans hands
22 Apr 1745
Austria & Bavaria sign Peace Treaty of Fssen ending Bavarias participation (on the French side) in the War of the Austrian Succession
22 Apr 1871
All German Jews emancipated after the German Constitution adopted by its last state Bavaria
22 Apr 1876
1st official National League baseball game is played Boston Red Stockings beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds Philadelphia
22 Apr 1898
1st SpanishAmerican War action sees the USS Nashville capture a Spanish ship
22 Apr 1957
All NL baseball teams integrate John Irwin Kennedy becomes the 1st Black player for the Philadelphia Phillies
22 Apr 1971
Soyuz 10 launches as the worlds first mission to the first-ever space station (the Salyut 1) however the docking was unsuccessful and the cosmonauts returned to Earth
22 Apr 1972
Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on the Moon
22 Apr 2020
Sudan bans female genital mutation and makes it a criminal offense
22 Apr 1526
1st slave revolt in North America at San Miguel de Gualdape a Spanish settlement (now part of South Carolina)
22 Apr 1769
Madame du Barry becomes French King Louis XVs official mistress
22 Apr 1876
1st official National League baseball game is played Boston Red Caps beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds Philadelphia
22 Apr 1876
Philadelphia native Tim McGinley of the Boston Red Caps scores baseball National Leagues 1st run in Philadelphia
22 Apr 1903
NY Highlanders (Yankees) first MLB game lose 3-1 before 11950 vs Washington Senators at American League Park
22 Apr 1927
Roger Sessions 1st Symphony in E premieres with Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra
22 Apr 1966
The Troggs second single Wild Thing released tops the charts in July
22 Apr 1992
6.1 earthquake under the Little San Bernadino Mountains near Joshua Tree California
22 Apr 1993
The Whos Tommy opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
22 Apr 2021
India sets a world record for daily COVID-19 cases recording 314835 new cases with 2104 deaths
22 Apr 1823
British inventor Robert John Tyers patents an in-line roller skate he calls the Volito with a single row of 5 wooden wheels a wooden sole and a curved iron bar at the front as a rudimentary brake. [1]
22 Apr 1894
The very first Venice Biennale opens in Venice Italy as a biennial exhibition of Italian art [1]
22 Apr 1994
Worlds largest lollipop weighing 3011 pounds made by BonBon a candy factory in Home-Olstrup Denmark record later broken
22 Apr 2020
Sudan bans female genital mutilation and makes it a criminal offense
22 Apr 1721
HMS Seahorse infected with smallpox arrives in Boston harbor causing the first outbreak in two decades. - half of the population catch it causing 850 deaths [1]
22 Apr 1915
First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies at Ypres in World War I [1]
22 Apr 1945
Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg Germany is liberated by the Polish Army
22 Apr 1972
NASA Apollo 16 astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride the Lunar Rover on the moon
22 Apr 2006
Nepali security forces open fire on Pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra injuring hundreds. The protestors go on to secure the restoration of Parliament and a federal state.
22 Apr 2012
30-year-old woman collapses and dies during London Marathon
22 Apr 2023
Foreign countries begin evacuating their citizens out of Khartoum Sudans capital as fighting continues to escalate with WHO and UN saying over 400 people killed and 200000 fled the country [1]
22 Apr 2023
Record outbreak of dengue fever in north west Argentina kills over 40 people and infects more than 60000 [1]
22 Apr 1073
Pope Alexander II buried and Cardinal Hildebrand is chosen as Pope Gregory VII
22 Apr 1453
Ottoman Turks transport their first ships overland into the Golden Horn bypassing the chain barrier protecting Constantinople
22 Apr 1526
First slave revolt in North America occurs at San Miguel de Gualdape a Spanish settlement now part of South Carolina
22 Apr 1601
First expedition of the English East India Company to the Spice Islands of the Moluccas departs Torbay
22 Apr 1608
Dutch trading ship arrives at the kingdom of Loango (modern Congo) to acquire ivory their king requests audience with VOC official Pieter van den Broecke [1]
22 Apr 1712
Last sighting of the Dutch ship Zuytdorp as it leaves the Cape of Good Hope carrying a cargo of silver with 200 crew and passengers the wreck is discovered in 1927 north of Perth Western Australia [1]
22 Apr 1728
Pierre de Marivauxs play Le Triomphe de Plutus premieres in Paris
22 Apr 1817
Curaao prohibits the use of white paint due to intense sunlight
22 Apr 1848
Captain James Fitzjames and 105 surviving crew depart their ice-trapped ships for safety in arctic Canada - all later perish. Part of John Franklins doomed Northwest Passage expedition. [1]
22 Apr 1864
US mints 2-cent coin first appearance of In God We Trust
22 Apr 1876
First official National League baseball game is played Boston Red Caps beat Philadelphia Athletics 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds Philadelphia
22 Apr 1884
Thomas Stevens leaves San Francisco on the first bicycle trip around the world takes him 2 years and 9 months
22 Apr 1905
Operations begin uniting the Conservatory of Nature Monument Amsterdam
22 Apr 1916
Chinese troop transport ship Hsin-Yu and cruiser Hai-Yung collide in fog south of the Chusan Islands killing about 1000 people
22 Apr 1933
Dutch government forbids left wing radio address
22 Apr 1945
Stanley Cup Final Olympia Stadium Detroit MI Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings 2-1 for a 4-3 series win Leafs lead series 3-0 but Wings recover to 3-3 to force a decider
22 Apr 1946
Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) is founded in East Germany via a merger of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
22 Apr 1952
First atomic explosion shown on network news from the Nevada Test Site
22 Apr 1954
NBA adopts 24-second shot clock and six-team foul rule
22 Apr 1972
NASA Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke ride the Lunar Rover on the Moon
22 Apr 1979
Keyboardist Brent Mydland plays his first concert as a member of the Grateful Dead at the Spartan Stadium San Jose California
22 Apr 1981
Almost 1 million West German metalworkers go on strike
22 Apr 1981
More than 3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in one of the largest US bank robberies in history
22 Apr 1994
Brge Ousland is the first person on a solo and unsupported journey to reach the North Pole
22 Apr 1997
Haouch Khemisti massacre near Bougara in Algeria an armed group kills 93 villagers for refusing to provide food and supplies
22 Apr 2004
Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon North Korea destroying 1850 houses and killing a large but unknown number of people
22 Apr 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.
22 Apr 2023
Record outbreak of dengue fever in northwest Argentina kills over 40 people and infects more than 60000 [1]
22 Apr 2024
Britains Parliament approves a controversial bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda [1]
22 Apr 2024
Widespread flooding across southern China forces the evacuation of 110000 people with warning of a once in a century flood on the Bei River [1]
22 Apr 1721
HMS Seahorse infected with smallpox arrives in Boston Harbor causing the first outbreak in two decades half of the population contracts it resulting in 850 deaths [1]
22 Apr 1793
President Washington attends the opening of Rickettss the first circus in the US
22 Apr 1823
British inventor Robert John Tyers patents an in-line roller skate he calls the Volito with a single row of five wooden wheels a wooden sole and a curved iron bar at the front as a rudimentary brake [1]
22 Apr 1838
English steamship Sirius docks in NYC after crossing the Atlantic providing the first transatlantic steam passenger service
22 Apr 1848
Captain James Fitzjames and 105 surviving crew depart their ice-trapped ships for safety in Arctic Canada all later perish as part of John Franklins doomed Northwest Passage expedition [1]
22 Apr 1884
Thomas Stevens leaves San Francisco on the first bicycle trip around the world which takes him 2 years and 9 months
22 Apr 1903
NY Highlanders (Yankees) play their first MLB game losing 3-1 before 11950 spectators against the Washington Senators at American League Park
22 Apr 1915
First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies along the Western Front at Ypres France in World War I [1]
22 Apr 1962
NY Mets tie an NL record by losing 9 straight to start the season
22 Apr 1994
7000 Tutsi are slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye Rwanda
22 Apr 2006
Nepalese security forces open fire on pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra injuring hundreds. The protesters secure the restoration of parliament and a federal state
22 Apr 2016
Paris Agreement on climate change is signed in New York binding 195 nations to limit the increase in the global average temperature to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5C
22 Apr 2025
At least 5000 residents are evacuated as wildfire burns across 12500 acres in Pine Barrens New Jersey [1]
22 Apr 2025
Earth Day National Geographic releases a new documentary Secrets of the Penguins featuring the first drone footage in the world of penguin chicks jumping off a 50-foot cliff to take their first swim [1]
22 Apr 2025
Gunmen kill at least 26 mostly Indian tourists and injure a dozen others in Pahalgam Kashmir militant group known as The Resistance Front claim responsibility through social media