Back In The Day ------------- April 22 296 St. Gaius ends his reign as Catholic Pope. 536 St. Agapitus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil. 1509 Henry VIII ascends to the throne of England upon the death of his father, Henry VII. 1529 Spain and Portugal divide the eastern hemisphere in the Treaty of Saragosa. 1616 The Spanish poet Cervantes died in Madrid. (Some sources say April 23.) 1745 The Peace of Fussen is signed. 1792 President George Washington proclaims American neutrality in the war in Europe. 1861 Robert E. Lee is named commander of Virginia forces. 1889 The Oklahoma land rush officially starts at noon as thousands of Americans race for new, unclaimed land.1898 In the first action of the Spanish-American War, the USS Nashville, takes on a Spanish ship. 1915 At the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans use poison gas for the first time. 1918 British naval forces attempt to sink block-ships in the German U-boat bases at the Battle of Zeeburgge. 1931 Egypt signs treaty of friendship with Iraq. 1944 Allies launch major attack against the Japanese in Hollandia, New Guinea. 1954 The Senate Army-McCarthy hearings begin. They are broadcast on television. 1955 Congress orders all U.S. coins to bear the motto In God We Trust. 1970 The first Earth Day was observed. 1976 Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly news anchor on network television. 1994 Richard M. Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81. 1995 In Africa, Rwandan troops kill thousands of Hutu refugees in Kibeho. 2000 Armed immigration agents took Elian Gonzalez from the Miami home of his relatives to reunite him with his father. ------------- A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Osborne_(hiccups)
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