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Wednesday April 22, 2015 This is the 112th day of the year, with 253 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: feng shui In the feng shui ("wind and water") conception, the Earth is the body of a living spirit, or spirits, who can be pleased, displeased, or wounded by the way people use it. This idea arose early in China's Warring States Period (481-221 BC and is first mentioned in a mystical-political manual from Northeast China, the Guarn Dzu (c 400 BC), which speaks of water as the blood and breath of the Earth. From this conception, a superstitious belief developed that specialist feng shui geomancers can divine advantageous and disadvantageous arrangements of works and buildings by reference to their compass points. It is not clear when the divination began to be practiced, but it was familiar by the 2nd century BC.
Holidays Feast day of St. Theodore of Sykeon, St. Opportuna, St. Agipatus I, pope, St. Leonides of Alexandria, and Saints Epipodius and Alexander.
Brazil: Discovery of Brazil Day.
Oklahoma Day.
United States: Earth Day.
Events 1500 - Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral landed on the coast of Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.
1509 - Henry VIII ascended the throne of England following the death of his father, Henry VII.
1662 - King Charles II granted a charter to the Royal Society of London, which became an important scientific organization.
1838 - The first steamship to cross the Atlantic, the British ship Sirius, arrived at New York; it made the crossing in 18 days.
1864 - Congress authorized the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins.
1889 - The Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon; thousands of homesteaders staked claims.
1898 - The first action of the Spanish-American War was the USS Nashville capturing a Spanish merchant ship off Key West, Florida.
1914 - Babe Ruth made his professional pitching debut, playing for the Baltimore Orioles.
1915 - In World War I, the Germans shocked the world with their use of lethal chlorine gas in combat against French troops in Belgium.
1954 - The televised Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.
1970 - The first Earth Day was observed.
1976 - Barbara Walters became the first female nightly news anchor on network television.
1993 - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in Washington, D.C. to honor the victims of Nazi extermination.
1994 - Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland became the first person to make the trip to the North Pole alone.
1999 - NATO warplanes struck directly against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, destroying his luxurious mansion.
2000 - The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
2005 - In a federal court, Zacarias Moussaoui pled guilty to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans.
Births 1451 - Queen Isabella I, sponsor of Christopher Columbus's journeys.
1707 - Henry Fielding, English novelist.
1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher.
1870 - Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, first head of the Soviet State.
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American novelist and critic.
1904 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist, inventor of atomic bomb.
1925 - Aaron Spelling, American Emmy Award-winning executive producer.
1937 - Jack Nicholson (Rose), American Academy Award-winning actor.
1944 - Steve Fossett, American investment banker, aviator, and adventurer.
1950 - Peter Frampton, English musician.
1964 - Chris Makepeace, Canadian film and television actor.
Deaths 1908 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British statesman who served as Prime Minister.
1984 - Ansel Adams, American photographer.
1994 - Richard Nixon, the only American president to have resigned.
1996 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist.
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