Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Thu Apr 22 2021 12:05 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
04/22/1357 Johan I, King of Portugal (1383-1433)
04/22/1451 Isabella I, of Castile, Queen of Spain (1479-1504), patron of Columb
04/22/1610 Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italy, lawyer/Pope (1689-91)
04/22/1640 Mariana Alcoforado, Portugal, nun
04/22/1658 Giuseppe Torelli, Italy, composer (Concert Grossi op 8)
04/22/1682 Willem I Kerricx the Young, Flemish architect/sculptor/painter
04/22/1690 John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)
04/22/1707 Henry Fielding, England, novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones)
04/22/1724 Immanuel Kant, Germany, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
04/22/1766 Madame de Sta�l, Swiss-French belle-lettrist (An Extraordinary Woman
04/22/1773 Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader
04/22/1775 Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen)
04/22/1781 Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer
04/22/1799 Jean Poiseuille, physician/physiologist (blood pressure)
04/22/1818 Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Major General (Union volunteers)
04/22/1823 Alfred Gibbs, Major General (Union Army), died in 1868
04/22/1827 William Hopkins Morris, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 19
04/22/1828 Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer
04/22/1831 Alexander McDowell McCook, Major General (Union volunteers)
04/22/1832 Julius Sterling Morton, Nebraska, (Gov-Neb), started Arbor Day
04/22/1839 August W Eichler, German botanist
04/22/1853 Alphonse Bertillon, France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system
04/22/1854 Henri-Marie Lafontaine, Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
04/22/1858 Ethel Mary Smyth, composer
04/22/1863 Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher
04/22/1866 Hans von Seeckt, German general (Future of the Reich)
04/22/1868 Jose Vianna da Motta, composer
04/22/1870 Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionis
04/22/1873 Ellen Anderson Glasgow, US, novelist (Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942)
04/22/1876 O E R�lvaag, Norwegian-American novelist (Giants in the Earth)
04/22/1876 Robert B�r�ny, Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel 1914)
04/22/1878 Kitty Gordon, entertainer
04/22/1884 Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer
04/22/1884 John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Dies Sept 3, 1992)
04/22/1884 Otto Rank [Rosenfeld], Austria psychoanalysis (K�nstler)
04/22/1891 Belle Bennett, actress (Way of All Flesh, Stella Dallas, Iron Mask)
04/22/1891 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composer
04/22/1892 Nikolai Obouhov, composer
04/22/1899 Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Mikado, Iceman Cometh)
04/22/1902 Megan Lloyd George, English politician
04/22/1904 J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project
04/22/1904 Robert J Oppenheimer, US nuclear physics/director (Los Alamos)
04/22/1906 Eric William Fenby, composer/president (Delius Society)
04/22/1908 Eddie Albert, [Heimberger], Rock Island Il, actor (Oliver-Green Acre
04/22/1909 Ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show)
04/22/1910 Eric Scowen, physician
04/22/1910 R J Ritchie, tennis player
04/22/1912 Gavalda Miguel Querol, composer
04/22/1912 Kathleen Mary Ferrier, England, contralto (Orfeo Ed Evridice)
04/22/1914 Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm)
04/22/1914 Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer (Holland's Glory)
04/22/1915 Dick Dudley, Tenn, TV host (Village Barn)
04/22/1915 Lord Airedale, British social democrat
04/22/1916 Earl of Oxford & Asquith, governor (Seychelles)
04/22/1916 Yehudi Menuhin, NYC, violinist/conductor (Bartok's Sonata)
04/22/1917 Leo Abse, biographer/MP
04/22/1917 Mile Yvette Chauvir�, ballerina assoluta
04/22/1917 Sidney Nolan, Australia, painter/illustrator (Ned Kelly)
04/22/1918 Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, world's tallest man (8'11.1')
04/22/1919 Donald Cram, US, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
04/22/1920 Hal March, SF Calif, actor/TV host ($64,000 Question, Outrage)
04/22/1922 Charles Mingus, Arizona, jazz bassist (Pithecanthropus Erectus)
04/22/1922 Lou Stein, Phila Pa, pianist (Tonight! America After Dark)
04/22/1922 Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US, painter (Ocean Park Paintings)
04/22/1923 Betty Page, Kingsport Tn, playmate (Jan, 1955)/model (Dark Angel)
04/22/1923 Hugh Lloyd, actor (Punch & Judy Man, Dunroamin' Rising)
04/22/1923 Paula Fox, US children's books author (Poor George)
04/22/1923 Peter Bowring, CEO (C T Bowring)
04/22/1925 George Cole, actor (Minder, Vampire Lovers, Gone in 60 Seconds)
04/22/1926 Bob Flannigan, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
04/22/1926 Charlotte Rae, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Edna-Facts of Life)
04/22/1927 Pascal Bentoiu, composer
04/22/1928 Aaron Spelling, TV executive producer (Charlie's Angels)
04/22/1929 Margaret Pereira, forensic scientist
04/22/1929 Michael Atiyah, educator (Trinity College - Cambridge England)
04/22/1929 Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat/exec director (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
04/22/1931 Henk Gortzak, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CPN/PSP)
04/22/1931 Robert Dickson, Canada, ice hockey player (1948)
04/22/1931 Ronald Hynd, British choreographer
04/22/1931 Siem Devout, actor
04/22/1932 Michael Colgrass, Chicago Illinois, composer (Best Wishes)
04/22/1933 John A Llewellyn, Cardiff Wales, astronaut
04/22/1933 Robin Hutton, merchant banker
04/22/1934 Nico Ladenis, restauranteur
04/22/1934 Viscount Portman
04/22/1935 Christopher Ball, linguist/warden (Keble College-Oxford)
04/22/1935 Glen Campbell, Delight Ark, actor/singer (Time I Get to Phoenix)
04/22/1937 Bobbi Fiedler, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
04/22/1937 David Summerscale, head master (Westminster School England)
04/22/1937 Jack Nicholson, NJ, actor (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining)
04/22/1937 Kenneth Palmer, cricket umpire
04/22/1938 Alan Bond, tycoon/yachtsman
04/22/1939 Jason Miller, actor/writer (Exorcist, Light of Day)
04/22/1944 Joshua Rifkin, composer
04/22/1945 Alan Dukes, Irish leader (Fine Gael)
04/22/1945 Donald Graham, US businessman(?)
04/22/1945 Giel�n Escher, Dutch postage stamp artist
04/22/1945 Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage
04/22/1946 Archy Kirkwood, MP (L-D)
04/22/1946 Dectuplets, Bacacay Brazil, 8 males & 2 females
04/22/1947 Barry Guy, composer
04/22/1948 Carole Drinkwater, actress (Father, Haunted School)
04/22/1949 Spencer Haywood, Silver City Ms, NBAer (Oly-gold-1968, Knicks)
04/22/1950 Lewis Biggs, curator (Tate Gallery-North Liverpool)
04/22/1950 Peter Frampton, rock guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive)
04/22/1952 Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova, cosmonaut
04/22/1954 Joseph Bottoms, Santa Barbara Cal, actor (Surfacing, Blind Date)
04/22/1955 Arthur Baker, rock producer (Afrika Banbaataa-Planet Rock)
04/22/1956 Catherine Mary Stewart, actress (Passion & Paradise, Riding the Edge
04/22/1957 Ethel White, WBL guard (NY Stars)
04/22/1960 Lloyd Honeyghan, welterweight boxing champ
04/22/1961 Byron Allen, LA Calif, comedian (Real People, Byron Allen Show)
04/22/1961 Jeff Hostetler, NFL QB (NY Giants, 1990 Superbowl)
04/22/1962 Michael Damien, actor (Young & Restless)
04/22/1964 Chris Makepeace, actor (Vamp, My Bodyguard, Meatballs, Oasis)
04/22/1967 Sheryl Lee, actress (Love Lies & Murder)
04/22/1968 Vernell Coles, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1988)
04/22/1969 Craig Logan, Scotland, rock bassist (Bros Front, Bon Jovi-New Jersey
04/22/197- Scott Nemes, actor (Grant Schumacker-It's Garry Shandling)
04/22/1972 Anna Falchi, Tampera Finland, actress (La Dolce Vita '90)
04/22/1980 Aaron Metchnik, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Stephen-Torkelsons)
04/22/1985 Lauri Hendler, Ft Belvoir Va, actress (Julie-Gimme a Break)
Deaths:
04/22/ 536 Agapitus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies
04/22/1253 Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53
04/22/1355 Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II, dies at 36
04/22/1462 Gilbert of Lannoy, master of Villerval/Tronchiennes/Santes, dies
04/22/1648 Catharina Belgian van Nassau, daughter of Willem, dies at 69
04/22/1662 John Tradescant, gardener, dies
04/22/1699 Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz, poet, dies
04/22/1776 Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67
04/22/1778 James Hargreaves, inventor (spinning jenny), dies
04/22/1782 Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer, dies at 66
04/22/1788 Zacharias H Alewijn, poet, dies at 46
04/22/1827 Thomas Rowlandson, cartoonist, dies
04/22/1830 Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary, dies at 69
04/22/1833 Richard Trevithick, inventor (steam locomotive), dies at 62
04/22/1844 Henri-Montan Berton, composer, dies at 76
04/22/1864 Joseph Gilbert Totten, US Union general-major, dies at 76
04/22/1878 Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rh�n-N], writer, dies
04/22/1883 Octave Fouque, composer, dies at 38
04/22/1892 Edouard Lalo, composer, dies at 69
04/22/1901 William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies
04/22/1908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
04/22/1925 Andre Caplet, composer, dies at 46
04/22/1929 Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86
04/22/1930 Jeppe Aakj�r, Danish journalist/author/poet (Rugens sange), dies at
04/22/1933 Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies
04/22/1944 Mezio Agostini, composer, dies at 68
04/22/1946 Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice Supreme Court (1941-46), dies at 7
04/22/1946 Lionel Atwill, actor (Capt Blood, Great Waltz), dies at 61
04/22/1950 Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54
04/22/1951 Stanley Ridges, actor (possessed, Sgt York, Mr Ace), dies
04/22/1957 I Roy D Campbell, British writer (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
04/22/1957 Ignatius Roy Dunnachie Campbell, poet, dies
04/22/1962 Solomon Pimsleur, composer, dies at 61
04/22/1962 Vera Reynolds, actress (Dragnet Patrol, Lawless Woman), dies at 62
04/22/1967 Tom Conway, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show), dies at 62
04/22/1975 Mary Philips, actress (Farewell to Arms), dies at 75
04/22/1976 Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer, dies at 79
04/22/1977 Charles Sanford, orch leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71
04/22/1978 Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), dies at 75
04/22/1980 Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72
04/22/1981 Brailsford Reese Brazeal, dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
04/22/1982 Melville Bell Grosvenor, pres (Natl Geographic Society), dies at 80
04/22/1983 Earl 'Fatha' Hines, US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies
04/22/1983 Walter Slezak, actor (Lifeboat, Spy Hunt, Black Beauty), dies at 80
04/22/1984 Ansel Adams, US photographer, dies at 82
04/22/1988 Irene Rich, US actress (Beau Brumell, Champ), dies at 96
04/22/1989 Huey Newton, US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
04/22/1990 Bertil Unger, actor, dies
04/22/1992 Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas, at 34
04/22/1992 Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies
04/22/1992 Youcca Troubatzkoy, actress (Flower of the Night), dies
04/22/1993 Andries Treurnicht, founder S Afr Conservative Party, dies at 72
04/22/1993 Cesar Chavez, US farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
04/22/1993 Mark Koenig, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees), dies at 88
04/22/1994 D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
04/22/1994 Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies at 81 of strok
Significant Events:
04/22/ 296 St Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
04/22/ 536 St Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
04/22/ 687 -BC- Chinese record a meteor shower in Lyra
04/22/1073 Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
04/22/1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
04/22/1164 Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III
04/22/1370 Bastille begins being built in Paris
04/22/1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
04/22/1509 Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
04/22/1526 1st slave revolt occurs in SC
04/22/1529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragosa
04/22/1662 Royal Society incorporates
04/22/1674 Netherlands & M�nster sign peace treaty
04/22/1676 Battle of Etna (Ned/Spain-France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded
04/22/1769 Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's 'official' mistress
04/22/1796 Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi
04/22/1809 Battle at Eckm�hl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl
04/22/1817 Cura�ao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight
04/22/1823 Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
04/22/1838 English steamship 'Sirius' docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing
04/22/1861 Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia forces
04/22/1864 US mints 2� coin (1st appearance of 'In God We Trust')
04/22/1876 1st NL game, Boston Braves beat Phila Athletics 6-5
04/22/1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos)
04/22/1889 Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were 'sooner'
04/22/1897 NYC Jewish newspaper 'Forward' begins publishing (stiil active)
04/22/1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
04/22/1898 Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
04/22/1898 Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
04/22/1898 US gunboat Nashville defeats Spanish ship Buena Ventura
04/22/1898 US president Mckinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
04/22/1903 American Power Boat Association forms
04/22/1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game, Senators win 3-1 before 11,950
04/22/1905 Operations beginn uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam
04/22/1906 10th anniversay Olympic games open at Athens, Greece
04/22/1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #680 Genoveva
04/22/1911 H E Wood discovers asteroid #715 Transvaalia
04/22/1913 Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania
04/22/1914 Mexico ends diplomatic relations with US
04/22/1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
04/22/1915 2nd Battle of Ypres begins
04/22/1915 Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
04/22/1922 South Ossetian Autonomous Region established in Georgian SSR
04/22/1924 Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
04/22/1925 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1042 Amazone & #1043 Beate
04/22/1926 Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security
04/22/1927 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1209 Pumma
04/22/1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1226 Golia
04/22/1930 US, Britain & Japan agree to reduce naval forces
04/22/1931 Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
04/22/1933 Dutch govt forbids leftwing radio address
04/22/1937 NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
04/22/1941 Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1567 Alikoski
04/22/1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
04/22/1944 Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea
04/22/1944 Hitler & Mussolini meet at Salzburg
04/22/1945 Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated
04/22/1945 Toronto Maple Leafs beat Det Red Wings 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
04/22/1946 SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms
04/22/1947 Philadelphia beats Chicago, 4 games to 2, for 1st NBA championship
04/22/1948 WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
04/22/1951 Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC
04/22/1952 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
04/22/1954 Achiel of Acker forms Belgian govt
04/22/1954 NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule
04/22/1954 Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began
04/22/1954 USSR joins UNESCO
04/22/1955 Congress orders all US coins bear motto 'In God We Trust'
04/22/1955 KC Athletic's 1st game, beat Tigers 6-2
04/22/1961 Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria
04/22/1962 Tor Maple Leafs beat Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
04/22/1964 Tanganyika & Zanzibar form republic Tanzania
04/22/1964 World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens
04/22/1966 Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4
04/22/1967 Martial Law goes into effect in Greece
04/22/1969 Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zygiewicz in 1:36
04/22/1969 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
04/22/1970 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
04/22/1970 NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
04/22/1970 NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
04/22/1970 Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
04/22/1971 Soyuz 10 launched
04/22/1972 Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon
04/22/1974 Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
04/22/1974 C Torres discovers asteroid #2976 Lautaro
04/22/1975 Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead
04/22/1976 Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
04/22/1976 Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation
04/22/1977 Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel
04/22/1979 Mick Jaggar & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada
04/22/1981 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
04/22/1981 Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike
04/22/1982 Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season
04/22/1982 Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton [03/23]
04/22/1983 Rangers 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles win series 4-2
04/22/1983 Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
04/22/1986 Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
04/22/1987 Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
04/22/1989 Nolan Ryan strikesout his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
04/22/1990 Lebanon releases hostage Robert Polhill
04/22/1991 Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95
04/22/1991 Intel releases 486SX chip
04/22/1991 Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show
04/22/1991 Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Quee
04/22/1992 Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico
04/22/1992 Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington DC
04/22/1992 Richter 6 Earthquake in California
04/22/1993 Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
04/22/1994 Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
04/22/1994 Michael Moorer beats Hollyfield to become 1st lefty HW boxing champ
04/22/1994 Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam
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