Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 22

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Germaine de Staël |b|1766| James Hargreaves |d|1778| Emily Davies |b|1830| Lewis Powell|b|1844 Neal Ball |b|1881| Laura Gilpin |b|1891| Kathleen Ferrier |b|1912| Jack Nicholson |b|1937| Luang Por Dhammajayo|b|1944| Käthe Kollwitz |d|1945| Wilhelm Cauer |d|1945| Dee Duponte |d|1971| Emilio Segrè |d|1989 Donna Williams |d|2017
 * 1864 – The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of a two-cent coin (pictured), the first U.S. currency to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".
 * 1945 – About 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.
 * 1948 – Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army.
 * 1993 – Stephen 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.
 * 2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father.
 * 2004 – Flammable cargo exploded at a railway station in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than a thousand others.
 * 2013 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operations.
 * 2022 – American climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court Building in an apparent protest against the climate crisis.
 * Born/died: | Pope Caius |d|296| Miguel de Cervantes |d|1616| James Sullivan |b|1744|