Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
April 22
| 296 | St. Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | |
| 536 | St. Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | |
| 1500 | Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil. | |
| 1509 | Henry VIII ascends to the throne of England upon the death of his father, Henry VII. | |
| 1529 | Spain and Portugal divide the eastern hemisphere in the Treaty of Saragosa. | |
| 1745 | The Peace of Fussen is signed. | |
| 1792 | President George Washington proclaims American neutrality in the war in Europe. | |
| 1861 | Robert E. Lee is named commander of Virginia forces. | |
| 1889 | The Oklahoma land rush officially starts at noon as thousands of Americans race for new, unclaimed land. | |
| 1898 | In the first action of the Spanish-American War, the USS Nashville, takes on a Spanish ship. | |
| 1915 | At the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans use poison gas for the first time. | |
| 1918 | British naval forces attempt to sink block-ships in the German U-boat bases at the Battle of Zeeburgge. | |
| 1931 | Egypt signs treaty of friendship with Iraq. | |
| 1944 | Allies launch major attack against the Japanese in Hollandia, New Guinea. | |
| 1954 | The Senate Army-McCarthy hearings begin. They are broadcast on television. | |
| 1955 | Congress orders all U.S. coins to bear the motto "In God We Trust." | |
| 1976 | Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly news anchor on network television. | |
| 1995 | In Africa, Rwandan troops kill thousands of Hutu refugees in Kibeho. | |
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Born on April 22 |
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| 1451 | Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain, patron of Christopher Columbus. | |
| 1707 | Henry Fielding, English novelist (Tom Jones). | |
| 1724 | Immanuel Kant, German philosopher. | |
| 1870 | Vladimir Ilich Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov), leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and first head of the U.S.S.R. | |
| 1873 | Ellen Glassgow, American novelist. | |
| 1876 | O.E. Rolvaag, novelist (Giants in the Earth). | |
| 1899 | Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist (Lolita). | |
| 1904 | J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, director of the Manhattan Project. | |
| 1916 | Yehudi Menuhin, violinist. | |
| 1918 | Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man (8'11.1"). | |
| 1922 | Charles Mingus, jazz bassist. | |
| 1943 | Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. | |
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