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The Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar was a commemorative half dollar designed by Charles Keck and struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1936, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of Lynchburg, Virginia. The obverse of the coin depicts former Secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Senator Carter Glass, a native of Lynchburg. The reverse depicts a statue of the goddess Liberty, her arms outstretched in welcome. In the background is the Old Lynchburg Courthouse and the city's Confederate monument. After Congress authorized the half dollar, the Commission of Fine Arts proposed that it should bear the portrait of John Lynch, founder of Lynchburg, instead of Glass, but no portrait of him was known. Glass became the third living person to appear on a U.S. coin, and the first to be shown alone. Issued for $1, the coins have appreciated over the years, with 2018 estimates of value ranging between $225 and $365. (Full article...)

Fabiana Rosales

• ... that Venezuelan journalist Fabiana Rosales (pictured) has assumed the role of international ambassador, soliciting support for her husband's opposition party and the crisis in Venezuela?
• ... that the 1996 video game Polanie is considered a cult classic in Poland?
• ... that
  Welsh Premier League
  record during the 2003–04 season by scoring in 11 consecutive matches?
• ... that among the threats facing the "
  critically endangered" freshwater crayfish Euastacus dalagarbe are domestic livestock and cane toads
  ?
• ... that the tenor Ferry Gruber performed at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich for 50 years, including in Prokofiev's Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen alongside Ingeborg Hallstein in 1960?
• ... that height functions allow mathematicians to count and distinguish objects such as rational points of algebraic varieties?
• ... that Rachel Koopmans was part of a research team which discovered that two stained glass windows at the Canterbury Cathedral dated to the 1180s?
• ... that the Butler matrix squints?

NGC 7027

• At least 290 people are killed and hundreds of others are injured in multiple bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka.
• Scientists announce the discovery of naturally occurring helium hydride ions, believed to be the first compound to have formed in the universe, in the planetary nebula NGC 7027 (pictured).
• The former president of Peru Alan García commits suicide after a warrant is issued for his arrest.

April 22: Earth Day; Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama and Georgia (2019)

The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889

• capture the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf
  .
• 1889 – More than 50,000 people rushed to claim (pictured) a piece of the available two million acres (8,000 km²) in the Unassigned Lands, the present-day U.S. state of Oklahoma, founding Oklahoma City.
• 1951 – Korean War: The People's Volunteer Army of China attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, starting the Battle of Kapyong.
• Ryongchon
  , North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than a thousand.

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