Today in History
Listings for Thursday, April 22, 2021.
Birthdays:
- 1451 Isabella of Castile, patron of Columbus
- 1724 Immanuel Kant, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason)
- 1811 L.O. Hesse --1874
- 1870 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bolshevik
- 1899 Vladimir Nabokov
- 1904 J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, nuclear pioneer.
- 1908 Eddie Albert
- 1916 Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
- 1928 Aaron Spelling
- 1936 Glen Campbell
- 1937 Jack Nicholson
- 1950 Peter Frampton
Events:
- Lyrid meteor shower, radiant in Hercules
- Earth Day
- TV-Turnoff Week
- 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil
- 1509 Henry VIII ascends to throne of England
- 1529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragossa
- 1864 US Congress authorizes "In God We Trust" on coinage
- 1889 Oklahoma land rush officially starts; some were Sooner
That's all for today.
