Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Born, Socialist Workers Party Boss Fail, Richard Nixon Dead

On This Progressive Day: April 22

Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg (1912)

After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse (1945)

Army-McCarthy Hearings begin (1954)

President B. Hussein Obama urges corporate executives to back his progressive financial regulation (2010)

b: Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870), Richard Glücks (1889), Ferdinando Sacco (1891); d: Richard Nixon (1994)

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