What are the important events that happened on April 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 22: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 22 is the 112^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 253 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 9, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,745,280,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecadigon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 301 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,505 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 22 Historical Events

• 238 –
  Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.
• 1529 –
  Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
• 1809 –
  The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
• 1912 –
  Tsinghua University, one of mainland China’s leading universities, is founded.
• 1945 –
  World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. 520 are killed and 80 escape.
• 1954 –
  Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings begins.
• 1992 –
  In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15,000 left homeless.
• 1998 –
  Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
• 2005 –
  Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan’s war record.
• 2006 –
  243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.

Who were born on April 22?

• 1766 –
  Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
• 1899 –
  Vladimir Nabokov novelist, professor, lepidopterist [O.S. 10 April] (d. 1977)
• 1922 –
  Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
• 1930 –
  Enno Penno, Estonian politician
• 1948 –
  Larry Groce, American singer and songwriter
• 1953 –
  Tom Griswold, American radio personality
• 1960 –
  Tatiana Thumbtzen, American actress, model and dancer
• 1971 –
  Ingo Rademacher, German-Australian actor
• 1981 –
  Ken Dorsey, American football player
• 1988 –
  Amadou Samb, Senegalese footballer

Who died on April 22?

• 1672 –
  Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
• 1945 –
  Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1946 –
  Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)
• 1946 –
  Lionel Atwill, English actor (b. 1885)
• 1968 –
  Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
• 1990 –
  Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1994 –
  Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
• 2005 –
  Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
• 2005 –
  Robert Farnon, Canadian-born composer and conductor (b. 1917)
• 2008 –
  Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941)