April 22: Who’s celebrating – Some events like today

April 22: events like today

Pictures: Chemical weapons are used in World War I, the founding conference of EFEE, front page of “Pravda”, Miguel de Cervantes, Costas Crystal, Jack Nicholson

Monday, April 22, 2024: Agios Nearchos, Agios Nathanaels the Apostle

Celebrate: Nearchos, Nathanael

World days
• Earth Day

Events on April 22
• 1519 The Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement in Veracruz (Mexico).
• 1821 During the Greek Revolution, the Battle of Alamana takes place.
• 1822 Greek revolution: its holocaust takes place in the revolted Naoussa.
• 1912 “Pravda”, the official organ of the later CPSU, begins to be published in St. Petersburg.

• 1915 Chemical weapons are used for the first time on the battlefield. At the Battle of Ypres, Belgium, during World War I, German forces fire cylinders of chlorine gas, killing 5,000 French soldiers.

• 1928 A severe earthquake occurs in Corinth, as a result of which 20 people lose their lives and 3,000 houses are destroyed. In New Corinth, the prison building collapses, causing many prisoners to escape.
• 1931 The Benaki Museum is inaugurated in Athens, in the presence of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos and other officials.
• 1963 The Hilton Athens hotel is officially inaugurated.
• 1963 The founding conference of the National Student Union of Greece (EFEE) is taking place at the Hatzichristou Theater in Athens. The later journalist Yiannis Tzanetakos is elected its first president.

• 1969 In Houston, USA, doctors perform the first human eye transplant.
• 1970 World Earth Day is celebrated for the first time.
• 1991 In Ethiopia over a million people face the specter of hunger.

April 22 births
• 1899 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer
• 1916 Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist
• 1927 Yiannis Michalopoulos, Greek actor
• 1937 Jack Nicholson, American actor
• 1982 Kaka, Brazilian soccer player

Deaths on April 22
• 1616 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer
• 1894 Kostas Krystallis, Greek prose writer and poet
• 1985 Giorgos Oikonomidis, Greek presenter and lyricist

• 1994 Richard Nixon, 37th president of the USA
• 1998 Thanasis Skordalos, Greek musician

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