Earth Day – April 22:

April 22 is Earth Day.

Value and protect the environment, wildlife and pollinators.

Climate change is real.

Learn how to reduce carbon emissions.

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On this day in music history - The album Unspoken, by Jami Sieber (2008)

Unspoken

by Jami Sieber

was released on April 22, 2008.

Born on this day – Louise Glück:

Writer

April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023

Credits:

Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The Triumph of Achilles (1885); Mock Orange (1985); Ararat (1990); The Wild Iris (1992); Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994); Meadowlands (1997); Vita Nova (1999); The Seven Ages (2001); Aboriginal Landscape (2013); Averno (2006); A Village Life (2009); Poems: 1962-2012 (2012); Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014); Firstborn (1968); American Originality: Essays on Poetry (2017); Winter Recipes from the Collective (2021); The Drowned Children (1968); For Jane Meyers (1979); The Triumph of Achilles (1985); The Wild Iris (1992); The Red Poppy (1992); Nostos (1996); The Empty Glass (2001).

Born on this day – Jason Miller:

Writer

Actor

Director

April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001

Born on this day – Peggy Knudsen:

Actress

April 22, 1923 – July 11, 1980

Credits:

A Stolen Life (1946); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956); Bat Masterson (1959–1961); Betrayed Women (1955); City Detective (1955); Copper Canyon (1950); General Electric Theater (1960); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Half Past Midnight (1948); Hilda Crane (1956); Howie (1962); Humoresque (1946); Istanbul (1957); Lock Up (1959); Mr. & Mrs. North (1953); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); Never Say Goodbye (1946); Panic! (1957); Perilous Waters (1948); Perry Mason (1958–1959); Pete and Gladys (1960); Racket Squad (1951); Roses Are Red (1947); Shadow of a Woman (1946); So This Is Hollywood (1955); Stallion Road (1947); Target (1958); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1958–1961); The Big Sleep (1946); The Bob Cummings Show (1955); The Bottom of the Bottle (1956); The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1961); The Charles Farrell Show (1956); The Eve Arden Show (1958); The Ford Television Theatre (1957); The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956); The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1955); The George Burns Show (1958); The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (1957); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958); The Loretta Young Show (1955); The Magical World of Disney (1961); The Millionaire (1956); The People's Choice (1955–1956); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1954); The Real McCoys (1958); The Thin Man (1957); The Unfaithful (1947); Tightrope (1959); Tombstone Territory (1959); Trouble Preferred (1948); Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946); Unchained (1955); Your Show Time (1949).

Born on this day – William Jay Smith:

Writer

April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015

Credits:

Alain Bosquet (1995); Army brat: a memoir (1980); Around My Room (2000); Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (1957); Celebration at Dark (1950); His Collected Poems: 1939–1989 (1990); Ho for a Hat! (1964 / revised edition published in 1989); Laughing Time (1955); Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense (1980); My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams (2012); Poems (1947); Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955); Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue (1956); Songs of C, Federico García Lorca (1994); The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000); The Straw Market (2006); The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism (1972); The Tin Can and Other Poems (1966); The World Below the Window: Poems 1937–1997 (1998); Two Plays by Charles Bertin: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (1970); Typewriter Town (1960).

Born on this day – Byron Haskin:

 

Director

April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984

Credits:

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940); A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935); Across the Pacific (1926); Across the Pacific (1942); Action in the North Atlantic (1943); Alcoa Theatre (1957); All American (1940); All This, and Heaven Too (1940); Always in My Heart (1942); Armored Command (1961); Arsenic and Old Lace (1944); As the Earth Turns (1934); Black Fury (1935); Black Waters (1929); Bobbed Hair (1925); Broken Chains (1922); Brother Orchid (1940); Brother Rat and a Baby (1940); Bullet Scars (1942); Captain Sindbad (1963); Captains of the Clouds (1942); Castle on the Hudson (1940); Caught in the Fog (1928); City for Conquest (1940); Clothes Make the Pirate (1925); Colleen (1936); Conquest of Space (1955); Denver & Rio Grande (1952); Desperate Journey (1942); Dive Bomber (1941); Dodge City (1939); Don Juan (1926); Dust Be My Destiny (1939); Flight Angels (1940); Flowing Gold (1940); Four Wives (1939); From the Earth to the Moon (1958); Gambling on the High Seas (1940); Ginsberg the Great (1927); Glad Rag Doll (1929); Gold Is Where You Find It (1938); Green Light (1937); High Sierra (1940); His Majesty O'Keefe (1954); His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925); Historias para no dormir (1966); Hollywood (1980); Hurricane's Gal (1922); I Married a Doctor (1936); I Walk Alone (1947); Invisible Stripes (1939); Irish Hearts (1927); It All Came True (1940); It's Tough to Be Famous (1932); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); King of the Lumberjacks (1940); Lilly Turner (1933); Little Big Shot (1935); Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island (1954); Madonna of Avenue A (1929); Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948); Manpower (1941); Man-Woman-Marriage (1921); Matinee Ladies (1927); Millionaires (1926); On Approval (1930); On Thin Ice (1925); On Trial (1928); On Your Toes (1939); One Embarrassing Night (1930); Passage to Marseille (1944); Personal Maid's Secret (1935); Plunder (1930); Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964); Santa Fe Trail (1940); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); September Storm (1960); Side Streets (1934); Silver City (1951); Silver Dollar (1932); Slander the Woman (1923); Slim (1937); South of Suez (1940); Stage Struck (1936); Star Trek (1966); Strings (1933); Studio 57 (1957); Submarine D-1 (1937); Tarzan's Peril (1951); The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957); The Adventures of McGraw (1957); The Boss (1956); The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941); The Californians (1957–1958); The Deadline (1931); The Fighting 69th (1940); The First Texan (1956); The Golden Cocoon (1925); The Great Lie (1941); The Great Sex War (1969); The Guilty Generation (1931); The Little Savage (1959); The Magical World of Disney (1955); The Naked Jungle (1954); The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968); The Outer Limits (1963–1964); The Perfect Specimen (1937); The Power (1968); The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939); The Redeeming Sin (1929); The Roaring Twenties (1939); The Sea Beast (1926); The Sea Hawk (1940); The Sea Wolf (1941); The Singing Fool (1928); The Siren (1927); The Speckled Band (1931); The Wagons Roll at Night (1941); The War of the Worlds (1953); The World's a Stage (1922); They Drive by Night (1940); This Our Life (1942); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Tons of Money (1930); Too Late for Tears (1949); Torrid Zone (1940); Treasure Island (1950); Truck Busters (1943); Virginia City (1940); Warpath (1951); We Are Not Alone (1939); When a Man Loves (1927); Where the Worst Begins (1925); Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942); Wild Boys of the Road (1933); Wild Harvest (1947); Wings for the Eagle (1942); Wings of the Navy (1939); Wolf's Clothing (1927); World of Giants (1959).

Born on this day – Henry Fielding:

Writer

April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754

Credits:

A Journey from This World to the Next (1749); Amelia (1751); An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (aka Shamela) (1741); An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751); An Old Man Taught Wisdom (1735); Grub Street Opera (1731); Historical Register for the Year 1736 (1737); Jonathan Wild (aka The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great) (1743); Joseph Andrews (aka The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams) (1742); Joseph Andrews / Shamela (1961); Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755); Legal Writings (1919); Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq (1743); Pasquin (1736); Plays and Poems (1919); Rape upon Rape; or, The Justice Caught in his own Trap (aka The Coffee-House Politician) (1730); The Author's Farce (1730); The Collected Works of Henry Fielding (1997); The Complete Works of Henry Fielding (1902); The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding (1993); The Covent Garden Journal (1752); The Female Husband (1746); The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (aka Tom Jones) (1749); The Jacobite's Journal and Related Writings (1974); The Modern Husband (1732); The Old Debauchees (1732); The True Patriot (1745); The Wedding Day (1743); The Works of Henry Fielding (1900); Tragedy of Tragedies (1731).

Richard Eberhart, on writing:

 

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

- Richard Eberhart.