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2019

Premiere of the Marvel film “Avengers: Endgame” by directors Anthony and Joe Russo, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, among others, in Los Angeles.

2003

Patrick Roy plays his final NHL game.

1998

Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.

1994

7,000 Tutsis are massacred by Hutus in a stadium in Kibuye, Rwanda.

1976

Barbara Walters becomes the first woman in the United States to serve as a news anchor (ABC News).

1969

The first eye transplant is attempted but fails to save the life of a 54-year-old man.

1965

The Rolling Stones kick off their first North American tour in Montreal.

1963

Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as Canada’s 14th prime minister.

1914

Babe Ruth makes his pitching debut for the Baltimore Orioles.

1876

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet “Swan Lake.”

The first National League baseball game is played between Boston and Philadelphia.

1737

Canada’s first ironworks, the Forges du St-Maurice, is established.

It happened on… April 22

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