On April 22, 1898, U.S. Navy began a blockade of Cuban ports and the USS Nashville captured a Spanish merchant ship in the early days of the Spanish-American War.
On April 22, 1889, at high noon, the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 began with roughly 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres of land in what is today Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties in Oklahoma.
On April 22, 2004, Pat Tillman, the professional football star who left his lucrative career after 9 – 11 to join the U.S. Army Rangers, was killed in action in Afghanistan. The Pentagon would later determine that Tillman died from friendly fire.