April 22nd
Today in America's Present Past
1526 | Civil Rights: The first recorded slave revolt at San Miguel de Gualdape, a Spanish settlement (South Carolina).
1711 | Educator Eleazar Wheelock was born.
1729 | Entrepreneur and the first U.S. Treasurer Secretary Michael Hillegas was born.
1793 | POTUS: President Washington attends the opening of Rickett's, the first circus in the U.S.
1827 | General William Hopkins Morris was born.
1873 | Author Ellen Anderson Glasgow was born.
1887 | Entrepreneur Andrew Carnegie wed Louise Whitfield.
1892 | Activist Vernon Johns was born.
1899 | Author Vladimir Nabokov was born.
1904 | Scientist Robert Oppenheimer was born.
1936 | Musician Glen Campbell was born.
1937 | Actor Jack Nicholson was born.
1940 | Congress: Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before the US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable.
1943 | Poet Louise Glück was born.
1946 | SCOTUS: Justice Harlan F. Stone died.
1954 | Congress: The Senate Army-McCarthy hearings begin.
1976 | Civil Rights: Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly network news anchor (ABC News).
1984 | Photographer Ansel Adams died.
1985 | Entrepreneur Sam Altman was born.
1993 | Activist Cesar Chavez died.
1994 | POTUS: President Richard Nixon died.
1993 | U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2000 | In a pre-dawn raid, agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
2004 | Pro Football and U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman died.