SomeFacts | April 22

On this day - April 22

1500 — Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil ...

1519 — Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at ...

1529 — Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between ...

1809 — The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is ...

1836 — Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, ...

1864 — The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that ...

1876 — The first National League baseball game is played at the ...

1889 — At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of ...

1898 — Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for ...

1906 — The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.

1915 — World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates ...

1930 — The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the ...

1944 — World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack ...

1944 — World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied ...

1944 — The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters ...

1945 — World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by ...

1945 — World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp ...

1948 — Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish ...

1951 — Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin ...

1954 — Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television ...

1966 — American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to ...

1969 — The formation of the Communist Party of India ...

1969 — British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday ...

1970 — Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under ...

1970 — The first Earth Day is celebrated.

1974 — Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai ...

1977 — Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.

1992 — A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in ...

1993 — Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially ...

2005 — Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for ...

2016 — The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight ...

2020 — Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck ...

2025 — At least 26 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a group ...