22 April
Notable Births
Violet McGraw
b. 2011
American actress (born 2011)
Adam Lanza
b. 1992
American mass murderer (1992–2012)
Danni Wyatt-Hodge
b. 1991
English cricketer
MGK
b. 1990
American musician (born 1990)
Kevin Kiermaier
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Eve Muirhead
b. 1990
Scottish curler (born 1990)
Dee Strange-Gordon
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
David Luiz
b. 1987
Brazilian footballer (born 1987)
Marshawn Lynch
b. 1986
American football player and actor (born 1986)
Amber Heard
b. 1986
American actress (born 1986)
Shkëlzen Shala
b. 1983
Kosovo Albanian entrepreneur and activist
Kaká
b. 1982
Brazilian footballer (born 1982)
Zoltán Gera
b. 1979
Hungarian footballer
Daniel Johns
b. 1979
Australian musician (born 1979)
Dan Cloutier
b. 1976
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1976)
Regine Velasquez
b. 1970
Filipino singer and actress (born 1970)
David J. C. MacKay
b. 1967
Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1967–2016)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
b. 1966
American actor (born 1966)
Jack Nicholson
b. 1937
American actor and filmmaker (born 1937)
Vladimir Lenin
b. 1870
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924
Notable Deaths
Len Goodman
d. 2023
English ballroom dancer (1944–2023)
Guy Lafleur
d. 2022
Canadian ice hockey player (1951–2022)
Adrian Garrett
d. 2021
American baseball player and coach (1943–2021)
Shirley Knight
d. 2020
American actress (1936–2020)
Donna Williams
d. 2017
Australian writer (1963–2017)
Dick Balharry
d. 2015
Scottish conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer (1937–2015)
Oswaldo Vigas
d. 2014
Venezuelan painter and muralist (1923–2014)
Richie Havens
d. 2013
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1941–2013)
Lalgudi Jayaraman
d. 2013
Indian violinist (1930–2013)
Richard Barrett (lawyer)
d. 2010
American lawyer (1943–2010)
Jack Cardiff
d. 2009
British cinematographer, director and photographer (1914–2009)
Juanita Millender-McDonald
d. 2007
American politician (1938–2007)
Henriette Avram
d. 2006
American computer programmer and system analyst
Alida Valli
d. 2006
Italian actress (1921–2006)
Erika Fuchs
d. 2005
German translator (1906–2005)
Philip Morrison
d. 2005
American astrophysicist (1915–2005)
Eduardo Paolozzi
d. 2005
Scottish sculptor and artist (1924–2005)
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
d. 2003
American husband-and-wife music duo
Munir Ahmad Khan
d. 1999
Pakistani nuclear engineer (1926–1999)
Erma Bombeck
d. 1996
American humorist and writer (1927–1996)
On This Day in History
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2025
At least 26 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a group of tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack.
2025 Pahalgam attack
2020
Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.
2020 Eastern Freeway truck crash
2016
The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
Paris Agreement
2005
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
Junichiro Koizumi
1993
Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.
Murder of Stephen Lawrence
1992
A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.
Gas explosion
1977
Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
Optical fiber
1974
Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
Pan Am Flight 812
1970
The first Earth Day is celebrated.
Earth Day
1970
Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park.
San Diego
1969
British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
Robin Knox-Johnston
1969
The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)
1966
American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D
1954
Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
McCarthyism
1951
Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
Korean War
1948
Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1945
World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
Jasenovac concentration camp
1945
World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
1944
World War II: The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
World War II
1944
World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
Greenland in World War II