1914<\/strong> – Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – At the Second Battle Ypres the Germans became the first country to use poison gas.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – The New York Yankees wore pinstripes and the hat-in-the-ring logo for the first time.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – British naval forces attempted to sink block-ships in the German U-boat bases at the Battle of Zeebrugge.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – The U.S., Britain, and Japan signed the London Naval Treaty, which regulated submarine warfare and limited shipbuilding.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – Egypt signed the treaty of friendship with Iraq.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – James G. Ray landed an autogyro on the lawn of the White House.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – During World War II, the Allies launched a major attack against the Japanese in Hollandia, New Guinea.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – An atomic test conducted in Nevada was the first nuclear explosion shown on live network television.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – The U.S. Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – Randy Matson set a new world record with a shot put toss of 71 feet, and 5 1\/2 inches in College Station, TX.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The first “Earth Day” was observed by millions of Americans.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – Barbara Walters became the first female nightly network news anchor.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The American Physical Society said that the “Star Wars” missile system was “highly questionable” and would take ten years to research.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – In Lima, Peru government commandos storm and capture the residence of the Japanese ambassador ending a 126-day hostage crisis. In the rescue, 71 hostages were saved. Those killed: one hostage (of a heart attack), two soldiers, and all 14 reels.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The Watson Family received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – Elian Gonzalez was reunited with his father. He had to be taken from his Miami relatives by U.S. agents in a predawn raid.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – ABC-TV aired a small portion of the Clinton-DiCaprio interview.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Filippino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered a state of emergency in the city of General Santos in response to a series of bombing attacks the day before. The attacks were blamed on Muslim extremists.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – The Boeing X-37 began its first orbital mission. It successfully returned to Earth on December 3, 2010.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> \u2013 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> \u2013 More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Katanga Province.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> \u2013 The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong> \u2013 A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes the main Philippines island of Luzon, killing at least 8 people.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 22 April 1914 – Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles. 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. 1918 – British naval forces attempted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[711,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-22-april","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-18b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23493,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/23493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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