April 22

April 22

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1500		Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil.
1509		Henry VIII ascends to the throne of England upon the death of his father, Henry VII.
1976		Barbara Walters becomes the first female nightly news anchor on network television.
Born on April 22
1451		Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain, patron of Christopher Columbus. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Ruling+Sexuality%3A+The+Political+Legitimacy+of+Isabel+of+Castile+[*].-a064057473
1707		Henry Fielding, English novelist (Tom Jones). Underbelly: Henry Fielding, Feminist http://underbelly-buce.blogspot.com/2007/05/henry-fielding-feminist.html?spref=tw
1724		Immanuel Kant, German philosopher. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/a-feminist-kant/
1870		Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov), leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and first head of the U.S.S.R.
1899		Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist (Lolita). Gender and Power in Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/529/gender-and-power-in-vladimir-nabokovs-lolita#.Vxo129ue0iA.twitter
1904		J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, director of the Manhattan Project.
1916		Yehudi Menuhin, violinist. Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin OM KBE (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor, who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. www.imdb.com/name/nm0579903/ Yehudi Menuhin: the violinist who changed the world | via @TeleMusicNews http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/yehudi-menuhin-the-rise-sad-fall-and-rise-again-of-a-mozartian-g/