On This Day
22 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1921 Subhash Chandra Bose resigned from Indian Civil Service to participate in freedom struggle.
- 1974 Chetan Bhagat, Indian author and columnist, author of Five Point Someone, was born. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010.
- 2021 The British government and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission apologized after an investigation found that at least 161,000 mostly Africans and Indians who died fighting for the British Empire during WWI weren't properly honored due to pervasive racism.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists, died. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature.
- 1724 Immanuel Kant, German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers, was born in Königsberg. His comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him an influential figure in modern Western philosophy.
- 1870 Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, was born. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.
- 1899 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist, was born.
- 1915 German forces used poisonous gas on Allied soldiers for the first time in World War I.
- 1945 Adolf Hitler admitted defeat in World War II and, a week later, took his own life in an underground bunker.
- 1969 First human eye transplant was performed.
- 1970 Earth Day was observed for the first time.
- 1977 Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
- ⭐ Significance
- Earth Day is an annual event, which includes a wide range of happenings coordinated globally by EarthDay.org, to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
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