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Events

• 960 (1066 years ago) Basil II is crowned co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1500 (526 years ago) Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil).
• 1809 (217 years ago) The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
• 1898 (128 years ago) Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000.
• 1906 (120 years ago) The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
• 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
• 1944 (82 years ago) 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.
• 2020 (6 years ago) 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.

Births

• 1451 (575 years ago) Isabella I of Castile,
• 1724 (302 years ago) Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1804)
• 1870 (156 years ago) Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (died 1924)
• 1899 (127 years ago) Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (died 1977)
• 1904 (122 years ago) J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (died 1967)
• 1909 (117 years ago) Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Jack Nicholson, American actor and producer
• 1957 (69 years ago) Donald Tusk, Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland

Deaths

• 296 (1730 years ago) Pope Caius,
• 536 (1490 years ago) Pope Agapetus I,
• 1616 (410 years ago) Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1547)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (born 1867)
• 1984 (42 years ago) Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (born 1902)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (born 1907)
• 1989 (37 years ago) Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
• 1994 (32 years ago) Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (born 1913)

All 271 events, births and deaths of April 22