This Day in History for 22nd April

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 171

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 - Bastille begins being built in Paris
1500 - Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
1509 - Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
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
King of England King Charles I 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 arch duke 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
1861 - Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces
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
Confederate General Robert E Lee 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
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1914 - Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win
1914 - Mexico ends diplomatic relations with US
1915 - 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1915 - 2nd Battle of Ypres begins
1915 - NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
1916 - France battles at Fort Douaumont
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
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 (He was right)
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
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 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 - Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began
1954 - USSR joins UNESCO
1955 - Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"
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
1964 - Tanganyika & Zanzibar form republic Tanzania
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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 250

1357 - Johan I, King of Portugal (1383-1433)
1451 - Isabella I, of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columbus
1610 - Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italy, lawyer/Pope (1689-91)
1640 - Mariana Alcoforado, Portugal, nun
1658 - Giuseppe Torelli, Verona, Italy, composer (Concerti Grossi)
1682 - Willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter
1690 - John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
1707 - Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones)
1711 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
1724 - Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
1744 - James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
1766 - Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
1773 - Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader
1775 - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen)
1781 - Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer
1799 - Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist (blood pressure)
1812 - Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)
1816 - Philip James Bailey, English poet (Festus)
1816 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general
1818 - Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers)
1823 - Alfred Gibbs, Major General (Union Army), died in 1868
1827 - William Hopkins Morris, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1828 - Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer
1831 - Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - Julius Sterling Morton, Nebraska, (Gov-Neb), started Arbor Day
1839 - August W Eichler, German botanist
1840 - Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 - Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
1852 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
1853 - Alphonse Bertillon, France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system
1854 - Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
1856 - [Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Two Orphans)
1858 - Ethel Mary Smyth, composer
1860 - Ada Rehan, American stage actress (d. 1916)
1863 - Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, Dutch publisher
1864 - Phil May, Wortley Yorkshire, cartoonist
1866 - Hans von Seeckt, German general (Future of the Reich)
1868 - Jose Vianna da Motta, composer
1868 - Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (1870) 1870 - Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist
1872 - Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (d. 1954)
1873 - Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942)
1876 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (d. 1920)
1878 - Kitty Gordon, Folkestone England, entertainer
1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Simbirsk, Russian PM (1917)
1884 - Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer
1884 - John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Died Sept 3, 1992)
1889 - Ludwig Renn, writer
1889 - Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945, by suicide)
1891 - Belle Bennett, Milcoon Rapids IA, actress (Stella Dallas, Iron Mask)
1891 - Harold Jeffreys, English astronomer (d. 1989)
1891 - Nicola Sacco, American anarchist (d. 1927)
1891 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
1892 - Nikolai Obouhov, composer
1892 - Vernon Johns, American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
1899 - Martyn Green, London, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Iceman Cometh)
1902 - Megan Lloyd George, English politician
1904 - J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer, NY, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
1905 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (d. 1991)
1906 - Eric William Fenby, composer/president (Delius Society)
1906 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, second in line to the Swedish throne (d. 1946)
1907 - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)
1908 - Eddie Albert, [Heimberger], Rock Island Il, actor (Oliver-Green Acres)
1909 - Ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show)
1909 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel laureate, (d. 2012)
1909 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
1910 - Eric Scowen, physician
1910 - R J Ritchie, tennis player
1910 - Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1912 - Gavalda Miguel Querol, composer
1912 - Kathleen Mary Ferrier, England, contralto (Orfeo Ed Evridice)
1914 - Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm)
1914 - Hans Baumann, writer
1914 - Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)
1914 - Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
1915 - Dick Dudley, Tenn, TV host (Village Barn)
1915 - Lord Airedale, British Lord (social democrat)
1916 - Earl of Oxford & Asquith, governor (Seychelles)
1916 - Lord Menuhin, OM
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, NYC, violinist/conductor (Bartok's Sonata)
1917 - Leo Abse, biographer/MP
1917 - Sidney Nolan, Australia, painter/illustrator (Ned Kelly)
1918 - Mickey Vernon, baseball player
1919 - Donald Cram, US, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1920 - Hal March, SF California, actor/TV host ($64,000 Question, Outrage)
1920 - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Misery of the Word)
1922 - Charles Mingus, Arizona, jazz bassist (Pithecanthropus Erectus)
1922 - Lou Stein, Phila Pa, pianist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1922 - Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US, painter (Ocean Park Paintings)
1923 - Betty Page, Kingsport Tn, playmate (Jan, 1955)/model (Dark Angel)
1923 - Hugh Lloyd, actor (Punch & Judy Man, Dunroamin' Rising)
1923 - Paula Fox, US children's books author (Poor George)
1923 - Peter Bowring, CEO (C T Bowring)
1923 - Avis Bunnage, English actress (d. 1990)
1923 - Aaron Spelling, American television producer (Charlie's Angels), (d. 2006)
1925 - Christopher Ball, Oxford, warden (Keble College)
1925 - George Cole, London England, actor (Minder, Vampire Lovers)
1926 - Bob Flannigan, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
1926 - Charlotte Rae, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Edna-Facts of Life)
1926 - James Stirling, Scottish D-day-parachutist/architect/knight

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1939 - Actor and naval officer of World War II Douglas Fairbanks Jr (29) weds 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
2003 - "Star Trek: Enterprise" actress Jolene Blalock (28) weds "Live Nation" CEO Michael Rapino in Negril, Jamaica
2006 - "Entourage" actor Kevin Dillon (40) weds model-actress Jane Stuart (28) in Las Vegas
2006 - "Save The Last Dance" actor Sean Patrick Thomas (35) weds "The Fantastic Four" actress Aonika Laurent in New Orleans
2011 - American actor Eddie Cibrian (37) weds American country and pop singer LeAnn Rimes (28) at a private home in California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1993 - Tennis star Bjorn Borg divorces Loredana Berte

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 105

296 - Pope Caius
536 - St. Agapetus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies
1253 - Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53
1355 - Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward II, dies at 36
1462 - Gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies
1521 - Juan de Padilla, Spanish nobleman/communero-rebel, beheaded
1592 - Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80
1648 - Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69
1662 - John Tradescant, traveller/gardener, dies
1672 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73
1699 - Hans A baron von Abschatz, Silesian poet, dies at 53
1722 - Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies
1758 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
1776 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67
1778 - James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
1782 - Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66
1788 - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch poet, dies 46
1806 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
1821 - John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52
1827 - Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist, dies
1830 - Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69
1833 - Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
1844 - Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76
1854 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (b. 1786)
1864 - Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 76
1865 - Francis Washburn, US Union colonel/gen major, dies of injuries
1877 - James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer (b. 1807)
1883 - Octave Fouque, composer, dies at 38
1892 - Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies at 69
1893 - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825)
1896 - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
1899 - E J (Ned) Gregory, cricketer (one Test for Aust), dies
1901 - William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies
1908 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
1925 - Andre Caplet, composer, dies at 46
1929 - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86
1929 - Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
1930 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866)
1933 - Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies
1941 - Arthur Briscoe, cricketer (South African batsman in 2 Tests), dies
1944 - Mezio Agostini, composer, dies at 68
1945 - Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77
1946 - Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 73
1946 - Lionel Atwill, actor (Capt Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61
1950 - Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54
1951 - Stanley Ridges, actor (possessed, Sgt York, Mr Ace), dies at 59
1951 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
1953 - Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N], Dutch writer, dies at 75
1957 - Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
1961 - Maria Radulphus, [Adrian Hermus], Curacao school inspector, dies at 91
1962 - Solomon Pimsleur, composer, dies at 61
1962 - Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62
1967 - Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62
1968 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
1975 - Mary Philips, actress (Farewell to Arms), dies at 75
1976 - Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer, dies at 79
1977 - Charles Sanford, orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
1978 - Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75
Singer Jane Froman (1980) 1980 - Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72
1980 - Tommy Caldwell, rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
1981 - Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
1982 - Melville Bell Grosvenor, pres (Natl Geographic Society), dies at 80
1983 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies
1983 - Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in NY at 80
1984 - Ansel Adams, US photographer, dies at 82
1985 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
1986 - Mircea Eliade, writer, dies
1988 - Irene Rich, US actress (Beau Brumell, Champ), dies at 96
1989 - Huey Newton, US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
1990 - Bertil Unger, actor (Devil & Max Devlin), dies
1992 - Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34
1992 - Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies
1992 - Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies
1993 - Andries Treurnicht, founder S Afr Conservative Party, dies at 72
Farm Labor Leader Cesar Chavez (1993) 1993 - Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
1993 - Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
1994 - D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
1994 - Denis Pitts, journalist, dies at 64
1994 - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at 80
1994 - Richard Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of a stroke at 81
1994 - Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89
1995 - Don Pullen, pianist/composer, dies at 53
1995 - Maggie Kuhn, activist (Gray Panthers), dies at 89
1996 - David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63
1996 - Erma Bombeck, humorist (Grass is Greener), dies at 69
1996 - Hiteshwar Saikia, PM of Indian state of Assam (1991-96), dies
1996 - Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (b. 1908)
1998 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
1999 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (b. 1938)
37th US President Richard Nixon (1994) 1999 - Chan Canasta, magician and mindreader (b. 1920)
2002 - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)
2003 - Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912)
2003 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
2003 - Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
2004 - Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)
2004 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
2005 - Norman Bird, UK character actor (b. 1920)
2005 - Robert Farnon, Canadian-born composer and conductor (b. 1917)
2005 - Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)