On this day April 22nd: Birth of Michael Wittman.

On this day April 22nd:
1451-Isabella I of Castile, great Spanish Queen who expelled Jews and Muslims in 1492, was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres.
1500-Pedro Alvarez Cabral landed in Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.
1526-First slave revolt occured in South Carolina.
1778-James Hargreaves, English inventor of the Spinning Jenny, died in Nottingham aged 58.
1833-Richard Trevithick, English inventor died in Dartford, kent aged 62.
1870-Vladimir Lenin, half Jewish monster, responsible for the Bolshevik greatest mass murder campaign in history was born in Simbirsk.
1914-Michael Wittman, SS-Hauptsturmführer was born in Vogelthal. He was to become the top scoring German Panzer ace of WWII with 168 confirmed tank kills, he is considered one of the greatest tank commanders in history.
1915-The second battle of Ypres started when German troops released clouds of deadly chlorine gas on British troops. It was the first major gas attack of World War I.
1945-After learning that Bolshevik forces had taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and stated that suicide was his only recourse and that he will stay in Berlin to the bitter end.

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