TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 22
1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil.
1529 Spain and Portugal divide the eastern hemisphere in the Treaty of Saragossa.
1659 Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament
1692 Edward Bishop is jailed for proposong flogging as cure for witchcraft
1792 President George Washington proclaims American neutrality in the war in Europe.
1823 R J Tyers patents roller skates
1889 The Oklahoma land rush officially starts at noon as thousands of Americans race for new, unclaimed land.
1915 At the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans use poison gas for the first time.
1940 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
1951 Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC
1955 Congress orders all U.S. coins to bear the motto “In God We Trust.
1969 1st human eye transplant performed
1970 The first Earth Day was observed.
1970 Flat Earth celebrated
1978 ‘The Blues Brothers’ (Dan Akroyd and John Belushi) make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcyVGN3oGk
1981 Almost 1 million West German metal workers on strike
1983 Stern magazine announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1990 Lebanon releases US hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months
1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
1994 7,000 Tutsi’s slaughtered by Hutu in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
1997 The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends after 126 days
The hero status of the Peruvian troops involved in the successful raid was later called into question when evidence of summary executions of captured insurgents emerged.
2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
