April 22

• 1969

  British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

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• 1969

  The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.

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• 1970

  The first Earth Day is celebrated.

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• 1970

  Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park.

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• 1974

  Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.

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• 1977

  Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.

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• 1992

  A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.

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• 1993

  Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.

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• 2005

  Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.

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• 2009

  Fox News host Sean Hannity offered to be waterboarded for charity in order to prove that it did not amount to torture, though he did not follow through with it.

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• 2016

  The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.

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• 2025

  At least 26 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a group of tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack.

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1. 
   2011

   Violet McGraw, American actress

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2. 
   1997

   Grant Fisher, American runner

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3. 
   1994

   Chandler Stephenson, Canadian ice hockey player

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4. 
   1992

   Adam Lanza, American mass murderer (died 2012)

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5. 
   1991

   Danni Wyatt, English cricketer

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6. 
   1990

   Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor

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7. 
   1990

   Kevin Kiermaier, American baseball player

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8. 
   1990

   Eve Muirhead, Scottish curler

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9. 
   1988

   Dee Strange-Gordon, American baseball player

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10. 
    1987

    David Luiz, Brazilian footballer

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11. 
    1986

    Amber Heard, American actress

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12. 
    1986

    Marshawn Lynch, American football player

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