On This Day (April 22)

[MSFixR]

• 1500 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral and his crew became the first Europeans to sight Brazil when they spotted Monte Pascoal.
• 1864 - The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
• 1870 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary born. (d. 1924) (Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union.)
• 1889 – Over 50,000 people rushed to claim a piece of the available two million acres (8,000 km²) in the Unassigned Lands, the present-day U.S. state of Oklahoma. Within hours, both Oklahoma City and Guthrie had established cities of around 10,000 people.
• 1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer born. (d. 1977) (Nabokov was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. He also made significant contributions to entomology and had an interest in chess problems. “She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo... Lee... Ta.”)
• 1904 - Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist born. (d. 1967) (Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. It was the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. For this reason he is universally remembered as "the father of the atomic bomb". At the Trinity test in New Mexico, where his Los Alamos team first tested the bomb, Oppenheimer famously quoted from the Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.")
• 1915 – The Germans released chlorine gas as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres, killing over 5,000 soldiers within ten minutes by asphyxiation in the first large-scale successful use of poison gas in World War I.
• 1916 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist born. (d. 1999) (Menuhin was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom.)
  
  
  Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor
  
  
• 1930 – France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the London Naval Treaty, regulating submarine warfare and limiting military ship building.
• 1945 – About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 of the managed to escape while the other 520 were killed by the Croatian Ustaše regime.
• 1993 – The first version of Mosaic, created by computer programmers Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was released, becoming the first popular World Wide Web browser and Gopher client.
• 2002 - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress died. (b. 1949) (Linda Susan Boreman, better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, became famous after starring in the 1972 hardcore porn film “Deep Throat”. She later became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement.)
  
  
  Linda Lovelace

[Dark Dude]

2008 - Dark Dude bought four 99c double stacks from wendys and promptly turned them into chyme.