Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 22
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- 1500 - Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral (pictured) and his crew became the first Europeans to sight Brazil.
- 1915 - Chlorine gas was released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres, the first large-scale use of poison gas in World War I.
- 1930 - The London Naval Treaty, regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding, was signed.
- 2000 - In a predawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and returned him to his Cuban father.