ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

April 22

❑ 1 year ago…Soccer bomb threat

It’s revealed police are investigating a bomb threat to the home of England and Man Utd football star Harry Maguire.

❑ 4 years ago…Avengers hit

The star-studded Marvel superhero movie Avengers: Endgame premieres and would go on to become the highestgrossing film of all time.

❑ 5 years ago…Hottest marathon

The hottest London Marathon on record takes place with a peak temperature of 24.1C recorded at the event.

❑ 9 years ago… Moyes sacked

Manchester United manager David Moyes (left) is sacked just 10 months into his six-year contract at the club. ❑ 29 years ago…Nixon dies

Former US President Richard Nixon, who quit the White House in 1974 over the Watergate scandal, dies aged 81. ❑ 30 years ago…Racist murder

Stephen Lawrence, a black 18-year-old, is murdered by a gang of racist thugs in an attack at a bus stop in south-east London.

❑ 40 years ago…Hitler hoax

A magazine in Germany announces the discovery of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s personal diaries, which would later turn out to have been faked. ❑ 51 years ago… Dictator dies

The ruthless dictator of Haiti, Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier (right) – known for his Tonton Macoute death squads – dies, aged 64, after 14 years in power. ❑ 53 years ago…Sailing pioneer

British yachtsman Robert KnoxJohnston becomes the first person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop and single-handed. ❑ 100 years ago…Pin-up born

Model Bettie Page is born in Nashville, Tennessee, and would go on to become known as the “Queen Of Pin Ups” in the 1950s. ❑ 108 years ago…Gas attack

The first full-scale chemical warfare attack in history takes place when German forces unleash lethal chlorine gas against Allied troops on the Western Front during the Second Battle of Ypres. ❑ 153 years ago… Lenin born

The Russian revolutionary leader (left) is born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and would later go on to lead the Bolsheviks to power in 1917.