This Day In History: April 22

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1970

This Day in History Video: What Happened on April 22

Gaylord Nelson organizes the first Earth Day, Henry the VIII is crowned King of England, the U.S. Holocaust Museum is opened, and President Nixon dies in This Day in History video, The date is April 22nd. That Earth Day resulted in recycling, attention to global warming and the initiation of the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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