Monday, April 22, 2013

This will be 112th day of the year and 253 days will remain in the year.


April 22 Birthdays

Isabella I
1451–1504, Spanish queen of Castile and León (1474–1504), daughter of John II of Castile.

Henry Fielding
author (1707)

 Immanuel Kant
philosopher (1724)

 Vladimir Lenin
Russian revolutionary, (1870)

 Vladimir Nabokov
author (1899)

 J. Robert Oppenheimer
nuclear physicist (1904)

 Charles Mingus
jazz musician (1922)

 Bettie Page
model, pinup (1923)

 Jack Nicholson
actor (1937)

April 22 in History

1500

Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.

1509

Henry VIII became king of England.

1616

The Spanish poet Cervantes died in Madrid. (Some sources say April 23.)

1864

Congress authorized the inscription "In God We Trust" on coins minted as U.S. currency.

1889

The land rush in Oklahoma began when it was opened to settlers.

1970

The first Earth Day was observed.

1994

Richard M. Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81.

2000

Armed immigration agents took Elian Gonzalez from the Miami home of his relatives to reunite him with his father.

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