History Events on April 22

World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.

#World_War_II

World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.

#Jasenovac_concentration_camp

The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.

#London_Naval_Treaty

Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.

#Optical_fiber

The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.

#Paris_Agreement

At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.

#Land_Rush_of_1889

The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.

#United_States_Air_Force

Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.

#Junichiro_Koizumi

Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, a major port of Israel, is captured from Arab forces.

#1948_Arab-Israeli_War

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.

#Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police

Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.

#Conquistador

Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas.

#Treaty_of_Zaragoza

Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.

#Texas_Revolution

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.

#United_States_Congress

British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

#Robin_Knox-Johnston

Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam prompts anti-war protests in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco.

#Vietnam_War

The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.

#Stern_(magazine)

Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.

#Pedro_Álvares_Cabral

Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.

#Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence

The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.

#Battle_of_Eckmühl

World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.

#World_War_II

The first Earth Day is celebrated.

#Earth_Day

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.

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Spanish-American War: The USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.

#Spanish-American_War

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.

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In a series of explosions in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.

#1992_Guadalajara_explosions

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes the main Philippines island of Luzon, killing at least 8 people.

More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.

In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.

Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.

Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings begins.

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.

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.

The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of the MLB.

The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.

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.