Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 22

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• Pedro Álvares Cabral
  Pedro Álvares Cabral
• Pedro Álvares Cabral
  Pedro Álvares Cabral
• Hernán Cortés
  Hernán Cortés
• Oklahoma Land Rush
  Oklahoma Land Rush
• Two-cent piece first issued in 1864
  Two-cent piece first issued in 1864
• Henry VIII of England
  Henry VIII of England

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Earth Day	lots of uncited material
1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés established a settlement in Mexico, naming it "Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz" ("Rich village of the True Cross").	unreferenced section
1529 – Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Zaragoza, defining the areas of their respective influence in Asia.	refimprove section
1876 – The Boston Red Caps defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in the first game of baseball's National League.	no article on the event in question, and it isn't the primary focus of the target article
1889 – More than 50,000 American settlers rushed to claim (pictured) a piece of the two million acres (8,000 km2) made available in the Unassigned Lands, founding Oklahoma City.	Land Rush of 1889 has substantial uncited material and incomplete citations
1915 – World War I: German forces released 168 tons of chlorine gas at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres, causing thousands of casualties among French troops.	lead too short
1930 – France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the London Naval Treaty, regulating submarine warfare and limiting military ship building.	refimprove
1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida opened, covering more than Template:Convert, making it the largest single Disney theme park in the world.	expansion
2000 – In response to the rapid late 1990s growth of telecommunications, the United Kingdom enacted the Big Number Change, modifying the telephone numbering plans in various areas across the country.	refimprove
2016 – The multilateral Paris Agreement, on climate-change mitigation, adaptation, and finance, was opened for signature.	tagged for {update}
Princess Margaret of Prussia |b|1872	unref'd section
* 1622 – Anglo-Persian forces combined to capture the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf.	Date not mentioned in article
* 1969 – British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston completed the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world, winning the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.	10 Citation needed tags

Eligible

• 1509 – Henry VIII became King of England, following the death of his father Henry VII, eventually becoming a significant figure in the history of the English monarchy.
• 1864 – The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of a two-cent coin (pictured), the first U.S. currency to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".
• 1945 – About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 managed to escape while the remainder were killed by the Ustaše regime.
• 1948 – Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army.
• 1993 – Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager, was murdered while waiting for a bus in Eltham, London, leading to cultural changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice.
• 2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father.
• 2004 – Flammable cargo exploded at a railway station in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than a thousand others.
• 2013 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operations.
• 2022 – American climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court Building in an apparent protest against the climate crisis.
• Born/died: | Pope Caius |d|296| Miguel de Cervantes |d|1616| James Sullivan |b|1744| Germaine de Staël |b|1766| James Hargreaves |d|1778| Emily Davies |b|1830| Lewis Powell|b|1844| Neal Ball |b|1881| Laura Gilpin |b|1891| Kathleen Ferrier |b|1912| Jack Nicholson |b|1937| Luang Por Dhammajayo|b|1944| Käthe Kollwitz |d|1945| Wilhelm Cauer |d|1945| Dee Duponte |d|1971| Jung Woo-sung |b|1973| Sam Altman |b|1985| Emilio Segrè |d|1989| Rhys Nicholson |b|1990|

Notes

• Disneyland Paris appears on April 12, so Disney's Animal Kingdom should not be used in the same year.
• Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday appears on April 20, so Hitler Diaries should not appear in the same year.

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• 1500 – A fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral (pictured) anchored off present-day Brazil; he later claimed the land for the Portuguese Empire.
• 1885 – The first meeting of the Colonial Defence Committee, a standing committee of the British Colonial Office, was held to discuss the defence of Barbados.
• 1918 – The short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was established on territory formerly part of the Russian Empire.
• 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, starting the Battle of Kapyong.
• 2016 – The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and was signed by 175 parties.