Historical Events for 22nd April 2026

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1728 - Pierre de Marivaux's play "Le Triomphe de Plutus" premieres in Paris
1823 - Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
1848 - Captain James Fitzjames and 105 surviving crew depart their ice-trapped ships for safety in Arctic Canada; all later perish as part of John Franklin's doomed Northwest Passage expedition
1957 - All NL baseball teams integrate, John Irwin Kennedy becomes the 1st Black player for the Philadelphia Phillies
1969 - Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 days of non-stop sailing to become the 1st person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe
1971 - Soyuz 10 launches as the world's first mission to the first-ever space station (the Salyut 1) however the docking was unsuccessful and the cosmonauts returned to Earth
1998 - 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood and George Strait win
2006 - Nepalese security forces open fire on pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra, injuring hundreds. The protesters secure the restoration of parliament and a federal state

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