Event:
Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels joins an elite group of only 26 major league baseball players to have hit 500 home runs; Pujols achieved this feat during today's game against the Washington Nationals
More Notable Events on April 22:
1994 In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
1992 Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
1970 1st Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources
1915 1st military use of chlorine poison gas by Germany in WW I
1898 U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors
