April 22, 2022
QUOTE
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
--Charles Dickens
BIRTHDAYS
1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia
1923 – Bettie Page, Model and actress
1936 – Glen Campbell, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1937 – Jack Nicholson, Actor and producer
1950 – Peter Frampton, Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
IN MEMORY
1778 – James Hargreaves, British inventor
1933 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited
1978 – Will Geer, Actor
1984 – Ansel Adams, Photographer and environmentalist
1994 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
IN ON THIS DAY
1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
1864 –U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1915 – 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.
1954 – Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
1977 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.