📜 This Day in History
April 22
- 1073Gregory VII was elected pope following the death of Alexander II.
- 1864U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized the minting of the two-cent piece, the first U.S. coin to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".
1945About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 managed to escape while the remainder were killed by the Ustaše regime.- 1993Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager, was murdered while waiting for a bus in Eltham, London, leading to cultural changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice.
- 2013The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operations.
- 2022American climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court Building in an apparent protest against the climate crisis.
