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Uhlinger’s Interesting Pistol


Today in History: Born on April 22

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 Ilyich Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov), leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and first head of the U.S.S.R.

1873

Ellen Glasgow, American novelist.

1876

Ole Edvart 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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