Doris Day was born on 3 April 1922 in Cincinnati. An American actress and singer, Day began as a big-band vocalist and had a hit with Sentimental Journey, before turning to film. She starred in musicals and romantic comedies such as Calamity Jane, Pillow Talk, for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and That Touch of Mink, and in the Hitchcock thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which she sang Que Sera, Sera. She also hosted a television show, The Doris Day Show. Later in life she was devoted to animal welfare, founding the Doris Day Animal Foundation, and she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Before and after
- 2 February 1922Publication of Ulysses
- 1 March 1922Birth of Yizhak Rabin
- 5 March 1922Birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini
- from 12 March 1922 to 1 January 1936Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- 3 April 1922Birth of Doris Day
- 13 April 1922Birth of Julius Nyerere
- 16 April 1922Treaty of Rapallo
- 27 May 1922Birth of Christopher Lee
- 30 May 1922Construction of Lincoln Memorial
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