This Day in History : [ 22 / Apr ]

1959 Yankee Whitey Ford strikes out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings

Spent his entire 16-year career with the New York Yankees winning the World Series 6 times.

Apr 22 1451

Isabella I of Castile Queen of Spain (1479-1504) patron of Christopher Columbus who initiated the Spanish Inquisition with husband Ferdinand II of Aragon born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres Spain (d. 1504)

Apr 22 1610

Alexander VIII [Pietro Ottoboni] Italian Pope (1689-91) born in Venice Italy (d. 1691)

Apr 22 1640

Mariana Alcoforado Portuguese nun born in Beja Portugal (d. 1723)

Apr 22 1658

Giuseppe Torelli italian composer (Concerti Grossi) born in Verona Italy (d. 1709)

Apr 22 1682

Willem I Kerricx the Young Flemish architectsculptorpainter

Apr 22 1690

John Carteret Earl Granville (C) English chief minister (1722-42)

Apr 22 1707

Henry Fielding English novelist (Joseph Andrews Tom Jones)

Apr 22 1711

Eleazar Wheelock American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)

Apr 22 1744

James Sullivan 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)

Apr 22 1773

Jean V baron de Rebecque SwissDutch army leader

Apr 22 1775

Georg Hermes German philosophertheologist (Hermenianen)

Apr 22 1781

Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber German composer born in Breslau

Apr 22 1799

Jean Lonard Marie Poiseuille French physician and physiologist (blood pressure) born in Paris (d. 1869)

Apr 22 1812

Solomon Caesar Malan British orientalist (d. 1894)

Apr 22 1818

Cadwallader Colden Washburn American Major General (Union Army) born in Livermore Maine (d. 1882)

Apr 22 1823

Alfred Gibbs American Major General (Union Army) born in Long Island New York (d. 1868)

Apr 22 1827

William Hopkins Morris American author editor inventor and Major General (Union Army) born in (d. 1900)

Apr 22 1831

Alexander McDowell McCook American Major General (Union Army) born in Columbiana County Ohio (d. 1903)

Apr 22 1832

Julius Sterling Morton Nebraska (Gov-Neb) started Arbor Day

Apr 22 1844

Lewis Thornton Powell would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)

Apr 22 1852

Guillaume IV Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)

Apr 22 1853

Alphonse Bertillon French anthropologist devised crime ID system

Apr 22 1854

Henri-Marie Lafontaine Belgian international lawyer (Nobel 1913)

Apr 22 1856

[Marie] Louise Hens Flemish actress (Two Orphans) born (d. 1939)

Apr 22 1860

Ada Rehan Irish-American stage actress and comedian (Dalys Fifth Avenue Theatre) born in County Limerick Ireland (d. 1916)

Apr 22 1866

Hans von Seeckt German general (Future of the Reich)

Apr 22 1868

Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)

Apr 22 1872

Princess Margaret of Prussia queen of Finland (d. 1954)

Apr 22 1873

Ellen Anderson Glasgow American novelist (Ancient Law Pulitzer-1942)

Apr 22 1881

Alexander Kerensky Simbirsk Russian PM (1917)

Apr 22 1884

John van Capel oldest man in Netherlands (Died Sept 3 1992)

Apr 22 1889

Ludwig Renn German writer born in Dresden (d. 1979)

Apr 22 1889

Richard Glcks German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945 by suicide)

Apr 22 1056 Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye

Apr 22 1073 Pope Alexander II buried and Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII

Apr 22 1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet

This Day in History : [ 22 / Apr ]

1959 Yankee Whitey Ford strikes out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings

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This Day in History : [ 22 / Apr ]

1959 Yankee Whitey Ford strikes out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings

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