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Events from History on April 22

1992 : "High Rollers Social & Pleasure Club" closes at H Hayes NYC 14 perfs
1970 : "Park" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1990 : "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 33 performances
1989 : "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1993 : "Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances
1981 : 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
1722 : 19 VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed
1145 : 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1952 : 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
1970 : 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
1969 : 1st human eye transplant performed
1915 : 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1927 : 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E
1526 : 1st slave revolt occurs in SC
1898 : 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
1915 : 2nd Battle of Ypres begins
1992 : 6.0 earthquake in California
1994 : 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
1954 : Achiel van Acker forms Belgian govt
1944 : Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea
1981 : Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike
1903 : American Power Boat Association forms
1972 : Apollo astronauts John Young & Charles Duke ride on Moon
1823 : Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1898 : Baltimore James Hughes no-hits Boston Braves 8-0
1976 : Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1974 : Barbara Walters becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1370 : Bastille begins being built in Paris
1677 : Battle at Catania: between French & Dutch fleet
1809 : Battle at Eckmhl - Napoleon beats Austria arch duke Karl
1676 : Battle of Etna - Neth/Spain vs France, M de Ruyter fatally wounded
1994 : Bírge Ousland reaches North pole
1993 : Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
1959 : Chicago White Sox beat KC Athletics 20-6, in 1 inning Sox score 11
1898 : Cincinnati Red Theodore Breitenstein no-hits Pirates 11-0
1940 : Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
1945 : Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen liberated
1955 : Congress orders all US coins bear motto "In God We Trust"
1898 : Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry
1986 : Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row
1817 : Cura‡ao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight
1976 : Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation
1981 : Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela tosses his 3rd shutout in 4 starts
1991 : Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95
1692 : Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft
1931 : Egypt & Iraq sign peace treaty
1648 : English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed
1838 : English steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after Atlantic crossing
1952 : EugŠne Ionesco's "Les Chaises," premieres in NYC
1978 : Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony
1970 : Flat Earth celebrated
1916 : France battles at Fort Douaumont
1893 : Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo
1991 : Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park
1521 : French king Fran‡ois I declares war on Spain
1992 : Gas explodes in sewer, kills 200 in Guadalajara Mexico
1995 : General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Aulby
1995 : George Foreman beats Axel Schulz in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1943 : German counter attack in North-Tunisia
1804 : Gioacchino Rossini (12) performs in Imola
1983 : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1924 : Hague Chambers of Commerce forms
1509 : Henry VIII ascended to throne of England
1944 : Hitler & Mussolini meet at Salzburg
1993 : Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC
1992 : Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington DC
1994 : Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
1994 : In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
1991 : Intel releases 486SX chip
1969 : Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 : Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show
1671 : King Charles II sits in on English parliament
1982 : Launch of STS-3-Lousma & Fullerton [03/23]
1990 : Lebanon release US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
1659 : Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament
1769 : Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV's "official" mistress
1967 : Martial Law goes into effect in Greece
1914 : Mexico ends diplomatic relations with US
1994 : Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
1979 : Mick Jaggar & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada
1913 : Montenegro troops march into Skoetari, North-Albania
1796 : Napoleon defeats Piedmontese at Battle of Mondovi
1954 : NBA adopts 24-second shot clock & 6 team-foul rule
1674 : Netherlands & Mnster sign peace treaty
1989 : Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
1970 : NY Met Jerry Grote sets record of 20 put outs by a catcher
1970 : NY Met Tom Seaver strikes out last 10 Padres, for a total of 19
1962 : NY Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season
1915 : NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
1937 : NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1897 : NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)
1889 : Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner"
1905 : Operations begin uniting conservatory of Nature monument Amsterdam
1893 : Paul Kruger elected president of Transvaal for 3rd time
1500 : Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
1975 : Penguins 2-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-2 lead
1926 : Persia, Turkey & Afghanistan sign treaties of security
1983 : personal diaries written by Adolph Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1876 : Phila Nationals Wes Fisler scores baseball's 1st run
1728 : Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus," premieres in Paris
1992 : Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport Calif, kills 16 parachutists
1073 : Pope Alexander II buried/Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
1793 : Pres Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US
1823 : R J Tyers patents roller skates
1943 : RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
1164 : Raynald of Dassel names Guido di Crema as anti-pope Paschalis III
1940 : Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs
1861 : Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces
1969 : Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing
1662 : Royal Society incorporates
1994 : Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1993 : Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox
1946 : SED, Sozialistic Einheitspartei Deutschlands, party forms
1954 : Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began
1970 : Senators beat Yankees 2-1 in 18 innings
1991 : Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
1977 : Simon Peres becomes premier of Israel
1922 : South Ossetian Autonomous Region forms in Georgian SSR
1971 : Soyuz 10 launched
1983 : Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth
1987 : Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
1983 : Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1983 : Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume
1056 : Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye
1964 : Tanganyika & Zanzibar form republic Tanzania
1993 : Tennis star Bj”rn B”rg divorces Loredana Berte
1884 : Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos)
1951 : Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC
1529 : Treaty of Saragosa: Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere
1876 : Tsjaikovsky completes his "Swan Lake" ballet
1961 : Uprising of French parachutist of Gen Salan/Challe in Algeria
1864 : US mints 2› coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1898 : US President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
1884 : US recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1930 : US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
1954 : USSR joins UNESCO
1988 : Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)
1964 : World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens
1948 : WTVR TV channel 6 in Richmond, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 : Yankee Whitey Ford strikes-out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings
2003 : Bangladesh: Over 200 died as two boats tumble

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