TUESDAY, April 22, 2025

1500-Pedro Álvares Cabral is the first European to discover Brazil, landing near Monte Pascoal, claims it for Portugal

1915-First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies at Ypres in World War I [1]

1993-Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1994-7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda

2006-Nepali security forces open fire on Pro-democracy protesters demonstrating against King Gyanendra, injuring hundreds. The protesters go on to secure the restoration of Parliament and a federal state.

2016-Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C