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What Happened on April 22nd This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.
2016	The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
2005	Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
1993	Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.
1992	A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.
1977	Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
1974	Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
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.
1969	The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
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: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish 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: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
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	World War I: 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 open in Athens.
1898	Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000.
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 National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
1864	The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted 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.
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.

Famous People Born on April 22

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Year	Name
1944	Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1943	Keith Crisco, American businessman and politician (d. 2014)
1926	Charlotte Rae, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
1948	John Pritchard, English bishop
1914	Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian director and producer (d. 2008)
1690	John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1763)
1938	Alan Bond, English-Australian businessman (d. 2015)
1816	Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
1946	John Waters, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1980	Quincy Timberlake, Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician

Famous People Deaths On April 22

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 22. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1322	Francis of Fabriano, Italian writer (b. 1251)
2022	Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1951)
1996	Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
1672	Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish linguist and poet (b. 1598)
2003	Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
2014	Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (b. 1926)
1778	James Hargreaves, British inventor (b. 1720)
1989	Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1854	Nicolás Bravo, Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1983	Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)