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This day in history: 22 April

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271 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 22 April.
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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.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: April 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Arwald

Christian feast day: Epipodius and Alexander

Christian feast day: Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: John Muir (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: Opportuna of Montreuil

Christian feast day: Pope Caius

Christian feast day: Pope Soter

Christian feast day: St Senorina

Christian feast day: Theodore of Sykeon

Discovery Day (Brazil)

Events

2025At 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.

2020Four 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.

2016The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.

2005Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.

1993Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.

1992A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.

1977Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.

1974Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.

1970Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park.

1970The first Earth Day is celebrated.

1969British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

1969The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.

1966American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.

1954Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.

1951Korean 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.

1948Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.

1945World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.

1945World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.

1944World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.

1944World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.

1944World 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.

1930The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.

1915World 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.

1906The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.

1898Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000.

1889At 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.

1876The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.

1864The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

1836Texas 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

1809The 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.

1529Treaty 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.

1519Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.

1500Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil).

1073Election of Pope Gregory VII following the death of Pope Alexander II.

960Basil II is crowned co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

Born on this day

2011Violet McGraw, American actress

1997Grant Fisher, American runner

1994Chandler Stephenson, Canadian ice hockey player

1992Adam Lanza, American mass murderer (died 2012)

1991Danni Wyatt, English cricketer

1990Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler

1990Kevin Kiermaier, American baseball player

1990Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor

1988Dee Strange-Gordon, American baseball player

1987David Luiz, Brazilian footballer

1986Amber Heard, American actress

1986Marshawn Lynch, American football player

1983Sam W. Heads, English-American entomologist and palaeontologist

1983Shkëlzen Shala, Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist

1982Kaká, Brazilian footballer

1980Quincy Timberlake, Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician

1979Daniel Johns, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1979Zoltán Gera, Hungarian international footballer and manager

1978Paul Malakwen Kosgei, Kenyan runner and coach

1976Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1974Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-American bassist

1971Eric Mabius, American actor

1970Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress

1967David J. C. MacKay, English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 2016)

1967Sherri Shepherd, American actress, comedian, and television personality

1966Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor

1966Mickey Morandini, American baseball player and manager

1963Rosalind Gill, English sociologist and academic

1963Sean Lock, English comedian and actor (died 2021)

1962Danièle Sauvageau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1962Jeff Minter, British video game designer and programmer

1961Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (died 1996)

1961Byron Allen, American comedian and businessman

1961Jeff Hostetler, American football player

1960Mart Laar, Estonian historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Estonia

1959Ryan Stiles, American-Canadian actor and comedian

1959Terry Francona, American baseball player and manager

1957Donald Tusk, Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland

1953Tom Lysiak, Canadian ice hockey player

1952Marilyn Chambers, American actress (died 2009)

Died on this day

2023Len Goodman, English ballroom dancer and television personality (born 1944)

2022Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1951)

2021Adrian Garrett, American professional baseball player (born 1943)

2020Shirley Knight, American actress (born 1936)

2017Donna Leanne Williams, Australian writer, artist, and activist (born 1963)

2015Dick Balharry, Scottish environmentalist and photographer (born 1937)

2014Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (born 1926)

2013Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (born 1930)

2013Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)

2013Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)

2012George Rathmann, American chemist, biologist, and businessman (born 1927)

2010Richard Barrett, American lawyer and activist (born 1943)

2009Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director and photographer (born 1914)

2007Juanita Millender-McDonald, American educator and politician (born 1938)

2006Alida Valli, Italian actress (born 1921)

2006Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (born 1919)

2005Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (born 1924)

2005Erika Fuchs, German translator (born 1906)

2005Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (born 1915)

2003Felice Bryant, American songwriter (born 1925)

1999Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer (born 1926)

1996Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (born 1927)

1996Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (born 1908)

1995Jane Kenyon, American poet and author (born 1947)

1994Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (born 1913)

1990Albert Salmi, American actor (born 1928)

1989Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)

1988Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (born 1917)

1988Irene Rich, American actress (born 1891)

1987Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (born 1905)

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“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.”

Marcus Aurelius

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