Friday, 22 April 2011
On This Day - 22nd April
1870 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin born
1908 - Eddie Albert born
1915 - The Germans use Poison gas for the first time in warfare
1916 - Yehudi Menuhin born
1928 - Aaron Spelling born
1936 - Glen Campbell born
1937 - Jack Nicholson born
1950 - Peter Frampton born
1959 - The world famous British ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn arrives in New York after spending 24 hours in a Panama City jail.
1971 - Dictator of Haiti Papa Doc Duvalier dies after 14 years in power
1978 - Kim Elizabeth born
1979 - Daniel Johns born
1980 - Thirteen leading officials of the ousted government in Liberia are publicly executed on the orders of the new military regime.
1997 - The four-month siege of the Japanese embassy in Peru ends in gunfire and explosions as troops storm in.
2000 - US federal agents seize six-year-old Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian Gonzalez in an early morning raid on the home of his relatives in Miami.
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