April 22<\/p>\n
1500 \u2013 While following Vasco da Gama’s newly opened route around Africa to India, Portuguese navigator Pedro \u00c1lvares Cabral sails too far to the west in the Atlantic Ocean, and lands in what is now Brazil, discovering the South American continent.<\/p>\n
1529 \u2013 The Treaty of Zaragoza <\/em>between the king of Spain and Emperor Charles V, and Jo\u00e3o III of Portugal, regarding the areas of influence of both countries in Asia,\u00a0divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues -892.5 nautical miles – east of the Molucca islands.<\/p>\n 1836 \u2013 A day after the Texican victory at the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under General Sam Houston identify and take captive Mexican General Antonio L\u00f3pez de Santa Anna who was hiding among the prisoners of war of the battle.<\/p>\n 1864 \u2013 Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permits the inscription In God We Trust<\/em> be placed on all coins minted as U.S. currency.<\/p>\n 1876 \u2013 The first major league baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston baseball club<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 At noon, the first Land Rush into the Unassigned Lands of central Oklahoma Territory starts.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 Off the Florida Keys, gunboat PG-7, the USS Nashville<\/em>, the first U.S. Navy ship built by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, fires the first shot of the Spanish-American War and captures the Spanish merchantman SS Buena Ventura<\/em>.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013US Army Air Force Lieutenant Carter Harman, of the 1st Air Commando Group, flying a Sikorsky R-4 helicopter, conducts the first combat rescue sortie, rescuing a downed liaison aircraft pilot and his 3 British soldier passengers in the China-Burma-India Theater.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The ABC and DuMont television networks provide the first live\u00a0 coverage of Senate committee hearings by covering the Army\u2013McCarthy hearings.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 The first Earth Day<\/em> is celebrated. Despite all prognostications of imminent doom, 52 years later the Earth and humanity are still here.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States dies, age 81, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, of a stroke suffered 3 days previously.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan’s World War 2 war record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 22 1500 \u2013 While following Vasco da Gama’s newly opened route around Africa to India, Portuguese navigator Pedro \u00c1lvares Cabral sails too far to the west in the Atlantic Ocean, and lands in what is now Brazil, discovering the South American continent. 1529 \u2013 The Treaty of Zaragoza between the king of Spain and … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67079"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92085,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67079\/revisions\/92085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}