About April 22
April 22, 2024 is the 113th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 253 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 282 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 22
- 238 –Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
- 1500 –Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
- 1529 –Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
- 1809 –The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Grierson’s Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
- 1876 –The first ever National League is played in Philadelphia.
- 1889 –At high noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
- 1906 –The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
- 1912 –Tsinghua University, one of mainland China’s leading universities, is founded.
- 1915 –The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
- 1930 –The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- 1944 –The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with CSAR operations in the China-Burma-India theater.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
- 1945 –World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
- 1948 –1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
- 1969 –British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
- 1970 –The first Earth Day is celebrated.
- 1997 –Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
- 1998 –Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 2006 –243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
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