About April 22
April 22, 2024 is the 113th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 253 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 282 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 22
- 1500 –Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
- 1809 –The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
- 1864 –The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
- 1876 –The first ever National League is played in Philadelphia.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
- 1906 –The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
- 1912 –Pravda, the “voice” of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
- 1945 –World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
- 1948 –1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
- 1954 –Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.
- 1969 –British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
- 1970 –The first Earth Day is celebrated.
- 1983 –The German magazine Der Stern claims that the “Hitler Diaries” had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
- 1992 –In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
- 1997 –Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
- 1997 –The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
- 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.
- 2005 –Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan’s war record.
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