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Acontecimientos (36)

  1. 960Basil II is crowned co-Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
  2. 1073Election of Pope Gregory VII following the death of Pope Alexander II.
  3. 1500Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil (discovery of Brazil).
  4. 1519Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
  5. 1529Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues () east of the Moluccas.
  6. 1809The 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.
  7. 1836Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
  8. 1864The 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.
  9. 1876The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
  10. 1889At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
  11. 1898Spanish–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.
  12. 1906The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
  13. 1915World 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.
  14. 1930The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
  15. 1944World 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.
  16. 1944World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
  17. 1944World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
  18. 1945World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
  19. 1945World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
  20. 1948Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.
  21. 1951Korean 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.
  22. 1954Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
  23. 1966American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
  24. 1969British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
  25. 1969The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
  26. 1970The first Earth Day is celebrated.
  27. 1970Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park.
  28. 1974Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
  29. 1977Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
  30. 1992A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.
  31. 1993Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.
  32. 2005Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
  33. 2009Fox News host Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity in order to prove that it did not amount to torture, though he did not follow through with it.
  34. 2016The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
  35. 2020Four 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.
  36. 2025At 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.

Nacimientos (163)

  1. 1412Reinhard III, Count of Hanau (1451–1452) (died 1452)
  2. 1444Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (died 1503)
  3. 1451Isabella I of Castile (died 1504)
  4. 1518Antoine of Navarre (died 1562)
  5. 1592Wilhelm Schickard, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1635)
  6. 1610Pope Alexander VIII (died 1691)
  7. 1658Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (died 1709)
  8. 1690John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1763)
  9. 1707Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (died 1754)
  10. 1711Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, Austrian soldier (died 1762)
  11. 1724Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (died 1804)
  12. 1732John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (died 1814)
  13. 1744James Sullivan, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1808)
  14. 1766Germaine de Staël, French author and political philosopher (died 1817)
  15. 1812Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-English orientalist (died 1894)
  16. 1816Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (died 1897)
  17. 1830Emily Davies, British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University (died 1921)
  18. 1832Julius Sterling Morton, American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture (died 1902)
  19. 1844Lewis Powell, American soldier, attempted assassin of William H. Seward (died 1865)
  20. 1852William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (died 1912)
  21. 1854Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
  22. 1858Ethel Smyth, English composer (died 1944)
  23. 1858Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, Belgian art collector and art historian (died 1901)
  24. 1870Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (died 1924)
  25. 1872Princess Margaret of Prussia (died 1954)
  26. 1873Ellen Glasgow, American author (died 1945)
  27. 1874Wu Peifu, Chinese warlord, politician, and marshal of the Beiyang Army (died 1939)
  28. 1876Róbert Bárány, Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
  29. 1876Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler and strongman (died 1920)
  30. 1879Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (died 1939)
  31. 1884Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic (died 1939)
  32. 1886Izidor Cankar, Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat (died 1958)
  33. 1887Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (died 1951)
  34. 1889Richard Glücks, German SS officer and major contributor to the concentration camp system and the Holocaust (died 1945)
  35. 1891Laura Gilpin, American photographer (died 1979)
  36. 1891Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (died 1965)
  37. 1891Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (died 1989)
  38. 1891Nicola Sacco, Italian-American anarchist (died 1927)
  39. 1892Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (died 1965)
  40. 1899Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (died 1977)
  41. 1900Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (died 1988)
  42. 1904J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (died 1967)
  43. 1905Robert Choquette, American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat (died 1991)
  44. 1906Eric Fenby, English composer and educator (died 1997)
  45. 1906Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (died 1947)
  46. 1909Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
  47. 1909Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (died 2001)
  48. 1909Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 2000)
  49. 1910Norman Steenrod, American mathematician and academic (died 1971)
  50. 1912Kathleen Ferrier, English operatic singer (died 1953)
  51. 1912Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
  52. 1914Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian director and producer (died 2008)
  53. 1914Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (died 2002)
  54. 1914José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (died 1941)
  55. 1914Michael Wittmann, German SS officer (died 1944)
  56. 1916Hanfried Lenz, German mathematician and academic (died 2013)
  57. 1916Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (died 1999)
  58. 1917Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (died 2016)
  59. 1917Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (died 1992)
  60. 1918William Jay Smith, American poet and academic (died 2015)
  61. 1918Mickey Vernon, American baseball player and coach (died 2008)
  62. 1919Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2001)
  63. 1919Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (died 2011)
  64. 1922Richard Diebenkorn, American soldier and painter (died 1993)
  65. 1922Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979)
  66. 1922Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist and academic (died 1973)
  67. 1923Peter Kane Dufault, American soldier, pilot, and poet (died 2013)
  68. 1923Bettie Page, American model and actress (died 2008)
  69. 1923Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)
  70. 1924Nam Duck-woo, South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2013)
  71. 1926Charlotte Rae, American actress and singer (died 2018)
  72. 1926James Stirling, Scottish architect, designed the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Seeley Historical Library (died 1992)
  73. 1927Laurel Aitken, Cuban-Jamaican singer (died 2005)
  74. 1928Estelle Harris, American actress and comedian (died 2022)
  75. 1929Michael Atiyah, English-Lebanese mathematician and academic (died 2019)
  76. 1929Robert Wade-Gery, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India (died 2015)
  77. 1930Enno Penno, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 2016)
  78. 1931John Buchanan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019)
  79. 1931Ronald Hynd, English dancer and choreographer
  80. 1933Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist and astronaut (died 2013)
  81. 1935Christopher Ball, English linguist and academic
  82. 1935Paul Chambers, African-American bassist and composer (died 1969)
  83. 1935Bhama Srinivasan, Indian-American mathematician and academic (died 2025)
  84. 1936Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2017)
  85. 1936Pierre Hétu, Canadian pianist and conductor (died 1998)
  86. 1937Jack Nicholson, American actor and producer
  87. 1937Jack Nitzsche, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (died 2000)
  88. 1938Alan Bond, English-Australian businessman (died 2015)
  89. 1938Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (died 2009)
  90. 1938Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (died 2022)
  91. 1938Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
  92. 1939Mel Carter, American singer and actor
  93. 1939John Foley, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
  94. 1939Ray Guy, Canadian journalist and author (died 2013)
  95. 1939Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (died 2001)
  96. 1939Theodor Waigel, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Finance
  97. 1941Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising, English politician
  98. 1942Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher and academic
  99. 1942Mary Prior, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bristol
  100. 1943Keith Crisco, American businessman and politician (died 2014)
  101. 1943Janet Evanovich, American author
  102. 1943Louise Glück, American poet (died 2023)
  103. 1943John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (died 2012)
  104. 1943Scott W. Williams, American mathematician and professor
  105. 1944Steve Fossett, American businessman, pilot, and sailor (died 2007)
  106. 1944Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)
  107. 1944Joshua Rifkin, American conductor and musicologist
  108. 1945Eddy Baldewijns, Belgian politician
  109. 1945Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Indian civil servant and politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal
  110. 1945Demetrio Stratos, Greek-Egyptian singer-songwriter (died 1979)
  111. 1946Steven L. Bennett, American captain and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1972)
  112. 1946Paul Davies, English physicist and author
  113. 1946Louise Harel, Canadian lawyer and politician
  114. 1946Archy Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Scottish lawyer and politician
  115. 1946Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, English economist and academic
  116. 1946John Waters, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  117. 1948John Pritchard, English bishop
  118. 1949Spencer Haywood, American basketball player
  119. 1950Peter Frampton, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  120. 1950Jancis Robinson, English journalist and critic
  121. 1950Lee Tamahori, New Zealand film director (died 2025)
  122. 1951Aivars Kalējs, Latvian organist, composer, and pianist
  123. 1951Ana María Shua, Argentinian author and poet
  124. 1952Marilyn Chambers, American actress (died 2009)
  125. 1953Tom Lysiak, Canadian ice hockey player
  126. 1957Donald Tusk, Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland
  127. 1959Terry Francona, American baseball player and manager
  128. 1959Ryan Stiles, American-Canadian actor and comedian
  129. 1960Mart Laar, Estonian historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Estonia
  130. 1961Jeff Hostetler, American football player
  131. 1961Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (died 1996)
  132. 1961Byron Allen, American comedian and businessman
  133. 1962Jeff Minter, British video game designer and programmer
  134. 1962Danièle Sauvageau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  135. 1963Rosalind Gill, English sociologist and academic
  136. 1963Sean Lock, English comedian and actor (died 2021)
  137. 1966Mickey Morandini, American baseball player and manager
  138. 1966Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
  139. 1967David J. C. MacKay, English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 2016)
  140. 1967Sherri Shepherd, American actress, comedian, and television personality
  141. 1970Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
  142. 1971Eric Mabius, American actor
  143. 1974Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-American bassist
  144. 1976Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  145. 1978Paul Malakwen Kosgei, Kenyan runner and coach
  146. 1979Zoltán Gera, Hungarian international footballer and manager
  147. 1979Daniel Johns, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  148. 1980Quincy Timberlake, Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician
  149. 1982Kaká, Brazilian footballer
  150. 1983Sam W. Heads, English-American entomologist and palaeontologist
  151. 1983Shkëlzen Shala, Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist
  152. 1986Amber Heard, American actress
  153. 1986Marshawn Lynch, American football player
  154. 1987David Luiz, Brazilian footballer
  155. 1988Dee Strange-Gordon, American baseball player
  156. 1990Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor
  157. 1990Kevin Kiermaier, American baseball player
  158. 1990Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler
  159. 1991Danni Wyatt, English cricketer
  160. 1992Adam Lanza, American mass murderer (died 2012)
  161. 1994Chandler Stephenson, Canadian ice hockey player
  162. 1997Grant Fisher, American runner
  163. 2011Violet McGraw, American actress

Fallecimientos (73)

  1. 296Pope Caius
  2. 536Pope Agapetus I
  3. 591Peter III of Raqqa
  4. 613Saint Theodore of Sykeon
  5. 835Kūkai, Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Esoteric (Shingon) Buddhism (born 774)
  6. 846Wuzong, Chinese emperor (born 814)
  7. 1208Philip of Poitou, Prince-Bishop of Durham
  8. 1322Francis of Fabriano, Italian writer (born 1251)
  9. 1355Eleanor of Woodstock, countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (born 1318)
  10. 1585Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Paderborn (born 1550)
  11. 1616Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1547)
  12. 1672Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish linguist and poet (born 1598)
  13. 1699Hans Erasmus Aßmann, German poet (born 1646)
  14. 1758Antoine de Jussieu, French botanist and physician (born 1686)
  15. 1778James Hargreaves, British inventor (born 1720)
  16. 1806Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (born 1763)
  17. 1821Gregory V of Constantinople, Greek patriarch and saint (born 1746)
  18. 1833Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer (born 1771)
  19. 1850Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (born 1798)
  20. 1854Nicolás Bravo, Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (born 1786)
  21. 1871Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) (born 1806)
  22. 1877James P. Kirkwood, Scottish-American engineer (born 1807)
  23. 1892Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (born 1823)
  24. 1893Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (born 1825)
  25. 1894Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (born 1868)
  26. 1896Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (born 1812)
  27. 1908Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1836)
  28. 1925André Caplet, French composer and conductor (born 1878)
  29. 1929Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (born 1848)
  30. 1932Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (born 1883)
  31. 1933Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (born 1863)
  32. 1945Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (born 1900)
  33. 1945Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (born 1867)
  34. 1950Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (born 1895)
  35. 1951Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (born 1870)
  36. 1978Will Geer, American actor (born 1902)
  37. 1980Jane Froman, American actress and singer (born 1907)
  38. 1980Fritz Strassmann, German chemist and physicist (born 1902)
  39. 1983Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (born 1903)
  40. 1984Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (born 1902)
  41. 1985Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and academic (born 1900)
  42. 1985Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician and author (born 1921)
  43. 1986Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (born 1907)
  44. 1987Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (born 1905)
  45. 1988Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (born 1917)
  46. 1988Irene Rich, American actress (born 1891)
  47. 1989Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
  48. 1990Albert Salmi, American actor (born 1928)
  49. 1994Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (born 1913)
  50. 1995Jane Kenyon, American poet and author (born 1947)
  51. 1996Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (born 1927)
  52. 1996Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (born 1908)
  53. 1999Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer (born 1926)
  54. 2003Felice Bryant, American songwriter (born 1925)
  55. 2005Erika Fuchs, German translator (born 1906)
  56. 2005Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (born 1915)
  57. 2005Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (born 1924)
  58. 2006Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (born 1919)
  59. 2006Alida Valli, Italian actress (born 1921)
  60. 2007Juanita Millender-McDonald, American educator and politician (born 1938)
  61. 2009Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director and photographer (born 1914)
  62. 2010Richard Barrett, American lawyer and activist (born 1943)
  63. 2012George Rathmann, American chemist, biologist, and businessman (born 1927)
  64. 2013Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
  65. 2013Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (born 1930)
  66. 2013Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)
  67. 2014Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (born 1926)
  68. 2015Dick Balharry, Scottish environmentalist and photographer (born 1937)
  69. 2017Donna Leanne Williams, Australian writer, artist, and activist (born 1963)
  70. 2020Shirley Knight, American actress (born 1936)
  71. 2021Adrian Garrett, American professional baseball player (born 1943)
  72. 2022Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1951)
  73. 2023Len Goodman, English ballroom dancer and television personality (born 1944)

Celebraciones (4)

  1. Discovery Day (Brazil)
  2. Earth Day (International observance) and its related observance: International Mother Earth Day
  3. Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia)
  4. From 2018 onwards, a national day of commemoration for the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence (United Kingdom)

Santoral (11)

  1. Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church)
  2. Arwald
  3. Epipodius and Alexander
  4. Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church)
  5. John Muir (Episcopal Church)
  6. Opportuna of Montreuil
  7. Pope Caius
  8. Pope Soter
  9. St Senorina
  10. Theodore of Sykeon
  11. April 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)