Year 1056
A supernova exploded in the Crab Nebula.
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22 April: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 22 April.
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International Mother Earth Day
Year 1500
Portuguese sailor Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil.
Year 1622
The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.
Year 1915
German army used poisonous gas chlorine for the first time in World War I.
Year 1921
Subhas Chandra Bose, resigned from the Indian Civil Service, and formed South Calcutta Sevak Samiti after returning to India. He was also arrested for carrying out our freedom movement.
Year 1942
The Telecommunication Training Centre was established at Jabalpur.
Year 1958
Admiral R. D. Katari became the first Chief in the Independent Indian Navy.
Year 1970
Millions of Americans celebrated Earth Day for the first time to increase environmental awareness around the world.
Year 1977
The first optical fiber used to introduce telephone traffic.
Year 1994
Chabbildas Mehta was sworn in as Gujarat CM.
Year 1998
India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region.
Year 1999
Lok Sabha passes the 1999-2000 general budget through voice vote but without a debate and without amendments.
Year 2006
Praveen Mahajan fired at BJP leader Pramod Mahajan over a family dispute.
Born 1724
Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.
Born 1812
Dalhousie, governor-general of India, was born.
Born 1870
Vladimir IIyich Lenin, a revolutionary freedom fighter and politician was born at Simbrisk, Volga.
Born 1904
J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist, and professor of physics.
Born 1904
Ramnath Goenka, an Indian newspaper publisher.
Born 1914
Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian director and producer (d. 2008)
Born 1915
Hem Barua, famous Assami and English litterateur was born.
Born 1916
Kanan Devi, an Indian actress, and singer.
Born 1923
Babani Sheshagiri Pai, social worker and journalist, was born at Ankola in Karnataka,
Born 1929
Robert Wade-Gery, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India (d. 2015)
Born 1935
Bhama Srinivasan, Indian-American mathematician and academic
Born 1945
Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Indian civil servant and politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal
Born 1971
Sumeet Raghavan, an Indian film and television actor.
Born On This Day
● 1974: Chetan Bhagat, an Indian author, and columnist.
Died 1840
James Princes, British research scientist and archaeologist, passed away.
Died 1933
Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited.
Died 1994
Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States.
Died 1996
Hiteshwar Saikia, chief minister of Assam (1991-96), passed away at the age of 62 years, and Dr Bhumidhar Barman became the new CM.
Died 2000
Bhaktavar Lentin (72), former Judge of the Bombay High Court, died
Died 2003
Balwant Gargi, an Indian Punjabi language dramatist, theatre director, novelist, and short-story writer.
Died 2013
Lalgudi Jayaraman, an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist, and composer.
Died 2013
Jagdish Sharan Verma, the 27th Chief Justice of India.