April 22nd in History

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April 22nd in History

1500: The area that became Brazil is discovered by Portuguese explorers
1954: Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began Red scare starts
1955: Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"

April 22nd birthdays

1451: Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain and patron of Christopher Columbus
1724: Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
1766: Madame de Stael, French writer
1870: Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (aka Lenin), Russian leader
1904: Robert Oppenheimer, Inventor of atomic bomb
1916: Yehudi Menuhin, Violinist
1937: Jack Nicholson, American actor