April 22nd in History
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
