April 22 is :
Passover 2024 begins at sundown on April 22 and ends April 30. Passover, called Pesach, gets its name from a pretty dark story: When Israelites were enslaved in Egypt, God unleashed 10 plagues on Egypt. The 10th plague was the death of every firstborn son. God told Moses to instruct Israelites to mark their doorposts with lambs’ blood so God would “pass over” their homes and let their firstborn sons live. Passover celebrates the Exodus, when Israelites fled to freedom from their enslavement in Egypt.
Girl Scout Leader Day
National Jelly Bean Day
Earth Day
Queen Isabella Day, honoring the 1451 birth of the Spanish queen who financed Christopher Columbus. Interesting sidenote: Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, were the parents of Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII.
April 22, 1502 – Pedro Alvares Cabral became the first European to reach present-day Brazil. Celebrated as Discovery Day in Brazil.
Treaty of Saragossa in 1529 divided the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Molucca Islands in Indonesia.
Birthday of Immanuel Kant in 1724, German philosopher.
Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836, forces under Texas General Sam Houston captured Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1864 – The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription “In God We Trust” be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
Birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1870, Russian revolutionary.
1876 – The first official National League baseball game took place. Boston beat Philadelphia 6-5.
Oklahoma Day celebrating the anniversary of the opening of the Oklahoma Territory for settlement in 1889.
1915 – The New York Yankees wore pinstripes and the hat-in-the-ring logo for the first time.
Version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser is released on April 22, 1993. From this code sprang Internet Explorer, and from the people who wrote it, we get Netscape, then FireFox.
April 22, 1994: Death of Richard Milhous Nixon , thirty-seventh President of the United States, the only president to resign from the office. Nixon died of a debilitating stroke in New York City at age 81.
2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami, Florida.