This Day in Auto History:

4.22.1891 Vittorio Jano of Alfa Romeo is born in San Giorgio Canavese, Italy 4.22.1919 John Norman Romney Barber of British Leyland Motors, Inc. is born 4.22.1933 Sir Frederick Henry Royce dies in West Wittering, West Sussex, England at age 70 4.22.1944 Frederick R. Simms, founder of the Daimler Motor Syndicate, Ltd. in 1893, the Royal Automobile Club, and the first person to drive a motor car in Great Britain, dies in London at age 81 4.22.1964 Ford Motor Company’s Wonder Rotunda opens at New York World’s Fair

Source: Automobile History Day By Day, by Douglas A. Wick