April 22
April 22 this yearin various calendars Akan Monowukuo Armenian 6 Mareri 1475 Aztec Xocotlhuetzi 2, 12 Itzcuintli Babylonian 4 Nisanu, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Kajeng, Laba, Wage, Maulu, Buda of Ukir, Indra, Erangan, Pati Bengali 9 Boisakh , BS 1433 Chinese Yang Fire Tiger ・Three Stars Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 3 , Day 6Guyu , 13 days until Lixia )Common Era 22 April 2026 CE Coptic 14 Parmouti , AM 1742Egyptian 6 Thoth , 2775 NE Ethiopian 14 Miyāzyā, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade I, Tridi de Floréal de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 22 April , AD 2026 Hebrew 5 Iyar , AM 5786Omer 20 Hindu Ārdrā ・Atigaṇḍa Vaiśākha , 1948 SE Ṣaṣṭhī , Śukla pakṣa of Vaiśākha , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,687 Icelandic Miðvikudagur, 30 Einmánuður 2025 Islamic 5 Dhu al-Qi'dah , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W17-3 Japanese 6 Yayoi , Reiwa 8Kokuu , 13 days until Rikka ) Julian 9 April , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461153 Korean 6 Yongdal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.9.10 3 Uo , 12 Oc Roman ante diem V Idus Apriles , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 2 Ordibehesht , SH 1405 Tibetan 6 nag pa, me pho rta
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Day of the year
April 22 is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 253 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens .1906 – The Paraguayan Regional Workers' Federation , the country's first national trade union federation , is established in Asunción .
1915 – World War I : 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 – World War II : The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater .1944 – World War II: In Greenland , the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station .
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. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.1945 – World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army .
1948 – Arab–Israeli War : The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces .1951 – Korean War : The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong .1954 – Red Scare : Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.1966 – American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma , killing 83.1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race1969 – The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.1970 – Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge , leading to the creation of Chicano Park .
1974 – Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar , Bali , Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.1992 – A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara , Mexico, killing 206.1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall , Eltham .2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.2009 – Fox News host Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity in order to prove that it did not amount to torture , though he did not follow through with it.2016 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.2020 – Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.2025 – At least 26 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a group of tourists in Pahalgam , Jammu and Kashmir . The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack.Births
1610 – Pope Alexander VIII (died 1691)1658 – Giuseppe Torelli , Italian violinist and composer (died 1709)1690 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville , English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1763)1707 – Henry Fielding , English novelist and playwright (died 1754)1711 – Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy , Austrian soldier (died 1762)1724 – Immanuel Kant , German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1804)1732 – John Johnson , English architect and surveyor (died 1814)1744 – James Sullivan , American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1808)1766 – Germaine de Staël , French author and political philosopher (died 1817)1812 – Solomon Caesar Malan , Swiss-English orientalist (died 1894)1816 – Charles-Denis Bourbaki , French general (died 1897)1830 – Emily Davies , British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University (died 1921)1832 – Julius Sterling Morton , American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture (died 1902)1844 – Lewis Powell , American soldier, attempted assassin of William H. Seward (died 1865)1852 – William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (died 1912)1854 – Henri La Fontaine , Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)1858 – Ethel Smyth , English composer (died 1944)1858 – Fritz Mayer van den Bergh , Belgian art collector and art historian (died 1901)
1870 – Vladimir Lenin , Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (died 1924)1872 – Princess Margaret of Prussia (died 1954)1873 – Ellen Glasgow , American author (died 1945)1874 – Wu Peifu , Chinese warlord, politician, and marshal of the Beiyang Army (died 1939)1876 – Róbert Bárány , Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)1876 – Georg Lurich , Estonian wrestler and strongman (died 1920)
1879 – Bernhard Gregory , Estonian-German chess player (died 1939)1884 – Otto Rank , Austrian-American psychologist and academic (died 1939)1886 – Izidor Cankar , Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat (died 1958)1887 – Harald Bohr , Danish mathematician and footballer (died 1951)1889 – Richard Glücks , German SS officer and major contributor to the concentration camp system and the Holocaust (died 1945)1891 – Laura Gilpin , American photographer (died 1979)1891 – Vittorio Jano , Italian engineer (died 1965)
1891 – Harold Jeffreys , English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (died 1989)
1891 – Nicola Sacco , Italian-American anarchist (died 1927)
1892 – Vernon Johns , African-American minister and activist (died 1965)1899 – Vladimir Nabokov , Russian-born novelist and critic (died 1977)1900 – Nellie Beer , British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 1988)1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist and academic (died 1967)1905 – Robert Choquette , American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat (died 1991)1906 – Eric Fenby , English composer and educator (died 1997)1906 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (died 1947)
1909 – Rita Levi-Montalcini , Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)1909 – Indro Montanelli , Italian journalist and historian (died 2001)
1909 – Spyros Markezinis , Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2000)
1910 – Norman Steenrod , American mathematician and academic (died 1971)1912 – Kathleen Ferrier , English operatic singer (died 1953)1912 – Kaneto Shindo , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
1914 – Baldev Raj Chopra , Indian director and producer (died 2008)1914 – Jan de Hartog , Dutch-American author and playwright (died 2002)
1914 – José Quiñones Gonzales , Peruvian soldier and pilot (died 1941)
1914 – Michael Wittmann , German SS officer (died 1944)
1916 – Hanfried Lenz , German mathematician and academic (died 2013)1916 – Yehudi Menuhin , American-Swiss violinist and conductor (died 1999)
1917 – Yvette Chauviré , French ballerina (died 2016)1917 – Sidney Nolan , Australian painter (died 1992)
1918 – William Jay Smith , American poet and academic (died 2015)1918 – Mickey Vernon , American baseball player and coach (died 2008)
1919 – Donald J. Cram , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2001)1919 – Carl Lindner, Jr. , American businessman and philanthropist (died 2011)
1922 – Richard Diebenkorn , American soldier and painter (died 1993)1922 – Charles Mingus , American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979)
1922 – Wolf V. Vishniac , American microbiologist and academic (died 1973)
1923 – Peter Kane Dufault , American soldier, pilot, and poet (died 2013)1923 – Bettie Page , American model and actress (died 2008)
1923 – Aaron Spelling , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)
1924 – Nam Duck-woo , South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2013)1926 – Charlotte Rae , American actress and singer (died 2018)1926 – James Stirling , Scottish architect, designed the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Seeley Historical Library (died 1992)
1927 – Laurel Aitken , Cuban-Jamaican singer (died 2005)1928 – Estelle Harris , American actress and comedian (died 2022)1929 – Michael Atiyah , English-Lebanese mathematician and academic (died 2019)1929 – Robert Wade-Gery , English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India (died 2015)
1930 – Enno Penno , Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 2016)1931 – John Buchanan , Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019)1931 – Ronald Hynd , English dancer and choreographer
1933 – Anthony Llewellyn , Welsh-American chemist and astronaut (died 2013)1935 – Christopher Ball , English linguist and academic1935 – Paul Chambers , African-American bassist and composer (died 1969)
1935 – Bhama Srinivasan , Indian-American mathematician and academic (died 2025)
1936 – Glen Campbell , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2017)1936 – Pierre Hétu , Canadian pianist and conductor (died 1998)
1937 – Jack Nicholson , American actor and producer1937 – Jack Nitzsche , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (died 2000)
1938 – Alan Bond , English-Australian businessman (died 2015)1938 – Gani Fawehinmi , Nigerian lawyer and activist (died 2009)
1938 – Issey Miyake , Japanese fashion designer (died 2022)
1938 – Adam Raphael , English journalist and author
1939 – Mel Carter , American singer and actor1939 – John Foley , English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
1939 – Ray Guy , Canadian journalist and author (died 2013)
1939 – Jason Miller , American actor and playwright (died 2001)
1939 – Theodor Waigel , German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Finance
1941 – Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising , English politician1942 – Giorgio Agamben , Italian philosopher and academic1942 – Mary Prior , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bristol
1943 – Keith Crisco , American businessman and politician (died 2014)1943 – Janet Evanovich , American author
1943 – Louise Glück , American poet (died 2023)
1943 – John Maples, Baron Maples , English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (died 2012)
1943 – Scott W. Williams , American mathematician and professor
1944 – Steve Fossett , American businessman, pilot, and sailor (died 2007)1944 – Doug Jarrett , Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)
1944 – Joshua Rifkin , American conductor and musicologist
1945 – Eddy Baldewijns , Belgian politician1945 – Gopalkrishna Gandhi , Indian civil servant and politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal
1945 – Demetrio Stratos , Greek-Egyptian singer-songwriter (died 1979)
1946 – Steven L. Bennett , American captain and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1972)1946 – Paul Davies , English physicist and author
1946 – Louise Harel , Canadian lawyer and politician
1946 – Archy Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope , Scottish lawyer and politician
1946 – Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford , English economist and academic
1946 – John Waters , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1948 – John Pritchard , English bishop1949 – Spencer Haywood , American basketball player1950 – Peter Frampton , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1950 – Jancis Robinson , English journalist and critic
1950 – Lee Tamahori , New Zealand film director (died 2025)
1951 – Aivars Kalējs , Latvian organist, composer, and pianist1951 – Ana María Shua , Argentinian author and poet
1952 – Marilyn Chambers , American actress (died 2009)1953 – Tom Lysiak , Canadian ice hockey player1957 – Donald Tusk , Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland 1959 – Terry Francona , American baseball player and manager1959 – Ryan Stiles , American-Canadian actor and comedian
1960 – Mart Laar , Estonian historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Estonia 1961 – Jeff Hostetler , American football player1961 – Alo Mattiisen , Estonian composer (died 1996)
1961 – Byron Allen , American comedian and businessman
1962 – Jeff Minter , British video game designer and programmer1962 – Danièle Sauvageau , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 – Rosalind Gill , English sociologist and academic1963 – Sean Lock , English comedian and actor (died 2021)
1966 – Mickey Morandini , American baseball player and manager1966 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan , American actor
1967 – David J. C. MacKay , English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 2016)1967 – Sherri Shepherd , American actress, comedian, and television personality
1970 – Regine Velasquez , Filipino singer and actress1971 – Eric Mabius , American actor1974 – Shavo Odadjian , Armenian-American bassist1976 – Dan Cloutier , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1978 – Paul Malakwen Kosgei , Kenyan runner and coach1979 – Zoltán Gera , Hungarian international footballer and manager1979 – Daniel Johns , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 – Quincy Timberlake , Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician1982 – Kaká , Brazilian footballer1983 – Sam W. Heads , English-American entomologist and palaeontologist1983 – Shkëlzen Shala , Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist
1986 – Amber Heard , American actress1986 – Marshawn Lynch , American football player
1987 – David Luiz , Brazilian footballer1988 – Dee Strange-Gordon , American baseball player1990 – Machine Gun Kelly , American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor1990 – Kevin Kiermaier , American baseball player
1990 – Eve Muirhead , Scottish curler
1991 – Danni Wyatt , English cricketer1992 – Adam Lanza , American mass murderer (died 2012)1994 – Chandler Stephenson , Canadian ice hockey player1997 – Grant Fisher , American runner2011 – Violet McGraw , American actressDeaths
1616 – Miguel de Cervantes , Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1547)1672 – Georg Stiernhielm , Swedish linguist and poet (born 1598)1699 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann , German poet (born 1646)1758 – Antoine de Jussieu , French botanist and physician (born 1686)1778 – James Hargreaves , British inventor (born 1720)1806 – Pierre-Charles Villeneuve , French admiral (born 1763)1821 – Gregory V of Constantinople , Greek patriarch and saint (born 1746)1833 – Richard Trevithick , English engineer and explorer (born 1771)1850 – Friedrich Robert Faehlmann , Estonian philologist and physician (born 1798)1854 – Nicolás Bravo , Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (born 1786)1871 – Martín Carrera , Mexican general and president (1855) (born 1806)1877 – James P. Kirkwood , Scottish-American engineer (born 1807)1892 – Édouard Lalo , French violinist and composer (born 1823)1893 – Chaim Aronson , Lithuanian businessman and author (born 1825)1894 – Kostas Krystallis , Greek author and poet (born 1868)1896 – Thomas Meik , English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (born 1812)1908 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)1925 – André Caplet , French composer and conductor (born 1878)1929 – Henry Lerolle , French painter and art collector (born 1848)1932 – Ferenc Oslay , Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (born 1883)1933 – Henry Royce , English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (born 1863)1945 – Wilhelm Cauer , German mathematician and academic (born 1900)1945 – Käthe Kollwitz , German painter and sculptor (born 1867)
1950 – Charles Hamilton Houston , American lawyer and academic (born 1895)1951 – Horace Donisthorpe , English myrmecologist and coleopterist (born 1870)1978 – Will Geer , American actor (born 1902)1980 – Jane Froman , American actress and singer (born 1907)1980 – Fritz Strassmann , German chemist and physicist (born 1902)
1983 – Earl Hines , American pianist and bandleader (born 1903)1984 – Ansel Adams , American photographer and environmentalist (born 1902)1985 – Paul Hugh Emmett , American chemist and academic (born 1900)1985 – Jacques Ferron , Canadian physician and author (born 1921)
1986 – Mircea Eliade , Romanian historian and author (born 1907)1987 – Erika Nõva , Estonian architect (born 1905)1988 – Grigori Kuzmin , Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (born 1917)1988 – Irene Rich , American actress (born 1891)
1989 – Emilio G. Segrè , Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)1990 – Albert Salmi , American actor (born 1928)1994 – Richard Nixon , 37th President of the United States (born 1913)1995 – Jane Kenyon , American poet and author (born 1947)1996 – Erma Bombeck , American journalist and author (born 1927)1996 – Jug McSpaden , American golfer and architect (born 1908)
1999 – Munir Ahmad Khan , Pakistani nuclear engineer (born 1926)2003 – Felice Bryant , American songwriter (born 1925)2005 – Erika Fuchs , German translator (born 1906)2005 – Philip Morrison , American physicist and academic (born 1915)
2005 – Eduardo Paolozzi , Scottish sculptor and artist (born 1924)
2006 – Henriette Avram , American computer scientist and academic (born 1919)2006 – Alida Valli , Italian actress (born 1921)
2007 – Juanita Millender-McDonald , American educator and politician (born 1938)2009 – Jack Cardiff , British cinematographer, director and photographer (born 1914)2010 – Richard Barrett , American lawyer and activist (born 1943)2012 – George Rathmann , American chemist, biologist, and businessman (born 1927)2013 – Richie Havens , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)2013 – Lalgudi Jayaraman , Indian violinist and composer (born 1930)
2013 – Robert Suderburg , American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)
2014 – Oswaldo Vigas , Venezuelan painter (born 1926)2015 – Dick Balharry , Scottish environmentalist and photographer (born 1937)2017 – Donna Leanne Williams , Australian writer, artist, and activist (born 1963)2020 – Shirley Knight , American actress (born 1936)2021 – Adrian Garrett , American professional baseball player (born 1943)2022 – Guy Lafleur , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1951)2023 – Len Goodman , English ballroom dancer and television personality (born 1944)