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Today in History: April 22

1529 Spain and Portugal divide the eastern hemisphere in the Treaty of Saragossa.

1692 Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as a cure for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts

1792 President George Washington proclaims American neutrality in the war in Europe.

1889 The Oklahoma land rush officially starts at noon as thousands of Americans race for new, unclaimed land.

1915 At the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans use poison gas for the first time.

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."

1991 Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from "The Tonight Show"

1976 Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly news anchor on network television.

2021 India sets a world record for daily COVID-19 cases recording 314,835 new cases with 2,104 deaths

2021 US President Joe Biden pledges to cut US carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 at a virtual climate summit


Born on April 22

1451 Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain, patron of Christopher Columbus.

1918 Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest man (8'11.1").

1937 Jack Nicholson (86th Birthday) American actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining), born in Neptune City, New Jersey


Joke of the Day
Three engineers were sitting in a bar talking about God

The electrical engineer says "God is clearly an electrical engineer. Look at the nervous system! The vast network of nerves and all those neurons firing..."
The mechanical engineer jumps in "No, God is obviously a mechanical engineer. What better example of the power of levers than the muscles, bones, ligaments, and tendons!"
The civil engineer says "You're both wrong. God is a civil engineer. Who else would run a waste disposal line right through a prime recreational area?"