History for April 22

History for April 22 - On-This-Day.com:
Queen Isabella I (Spain) 1451, Henry Fielding 1707 - Author ("The History of Tom Jones"), Immanuel Kant 1724 - Philosopher
 

Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) 1870 - Russian premier (1917-1924), Vladimir Nabokov 1899 - Russian novelist, J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 - Physicist, designed and built the first atomic bomb


1861 - Robert E. Lee was named commander of Virginia forces.


1864 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed the inscription "In God We Trust" to be included on one-cent and two-cent coins.


1889 - At noon, the Oklahoma land rush officially started as thousands of Americans raced for new, unclaimed land.


1898 - The first shot of the Spanish-American war occurred when the USS Nashville captured a Spanish merchant ship.


1915 - At the Second Battle Ypres the Germans became the first country to use poison gas.


1915 - The New York Yankees wore pinstripes and the hat-in-the-ring logo for the first time.


1970 - The first "Earth Day" was observed by millions of Americans.


1987 - The American Physical Society said that the "Star Wars" missile system was "highly questionable" and would take ten years to research.