About April 22
April 22, 2023 is the 112th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 253 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 294 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.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Grierson’s Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1912 –Pravda, the “voice” of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
- 1912 –Tsinghua University, one of mainland China’s leading universities, is founded.
- 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.
- 1948 –1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
- 1998 –Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 2000 –In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami, Florida.
- 2000 –The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
- 2003 –Election of the fifth Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
- 2005 –Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan’s war record.
- 2008 –The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
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