On This Day in History April 22, 2018

Historical Events 1500  Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first european to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal 1903  Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game in New York at Hilltop Park vs Washington Senators, lose 3-1 before 11,950 1915  1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I 1993  Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington D.C. 1994  7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered by Hutu in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda 2006  243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra. 2016  Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Bettie Page (1923 - 2008) Glen Campbell 82nd Birthday Jack Nicholson 81st Birthday Vladimir Lenin (1870 - 1924) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( - 1616) Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) More Famous Deaths April 23rd: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Could the son of a provincial glove-maker, born on this day in history, be the author of the world's greatest plays? The argument rages on. Read the Article