Quick glance of 22 April in the pages of History

April 22: Here are the major events that occurred on 22 April….

• 22 April, 1500: Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first european to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal
• 22 April, 1724: German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
• 22 April, 1760: Akbar II, the penultimate Mughal emperor of India and father of Bahadur Shah Zafar, was born.
• 22 April, 1864: The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864, which led to “In God We Trust” being printed on U.S. coins; the phrase was eventually added to all of the country’s currency.

• 22 April, 1870: Vladimir Lenin, Russian politician was born on this day.
• 22 April, 1904: American theoretical physicist and science administrator J. Robert Oppenheimer, who served as director of the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico during development of the atomic bomb, was born.
• 22 April, 1906: The 1906 Olympic Games begin in Athens. While the meet in practice was the second Olympic Games of the modern era, it is not recognized as such by the International Olympic Committee.
• 22 April, 1915: 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I

• 22 April, 1916: Kanan Devi, a popular singer and actress and the earliest female star of Bengali cinema, was born
• 22 April, 1916: Yehudi Menuhin, American/Swiss violinist, conductor was born
• 22 April, 1938: Chetan Bhagat, Indian writer, was born 
• 22 April, 1944: Adolf Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet at Salzburg
• 22 April, 1945: Adolf Hitler admits defeat. The German dictator announced in the underground Führerbunker that he plans to commit suicide after learning that Soviet forces had entered Berlin.
• 22 April, 1969: 1st human eye transplant performed.

• 22 April, 1970: First Earth Day celebrated, founded by Gaylord Nelson
• 22 April, 1977: Optical fiber is used for telephone transmissions for the first time. Fiber-optic technology allows sending information over long distances by means of light pulses. It has played an important role in the development of modern-day global communications.
• 22 April, 1991: Intel releases 486SX chip
• 22 April, 1994: Richard Nixon, American politician, 37th President of the United States died

• 22 April, 2006: 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
• 22 April, 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
• 22 April, 2021: India sets a world record for daily COVID-19 cases recording 314,835 new cases with 2,104 deaths.