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
- 1500 –Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
- 1836 –Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
- 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.
- 1930 –The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- 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: Führerbunker: After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.
- 1945 –World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
- 1954 –Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.
- 1970 –The first Earth Day is celebrated.
- 1983 –The German magazine Der Stern claims that the “Hitler Diaries” had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
- 1993 –Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released.
- 1997 –Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
- 1997 –The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
- 2000 –In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami, Florida.
- 2000 –Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.
- 2003 –Election of the fifth Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
- 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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