About April 22
April 22, 2025 is the 112th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 253 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 301 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.
- 1864 –The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
- 1906 –The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1954 –Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.
- 1970 –The first Earth Day is celebrated.
- 1997 –Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
- 2000 –Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.
- 2000 –The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
- 2004 –Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.
- 2005 –Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan’s war record.
- 2006 –243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
- 2008 –The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
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