April 22

James Hargreaves (pictured) died on the 22nd in 1778. In the textile industry, Hargreaves is generally given credit for having invented the spinning jenny. I believe, however, that if you check the official records you will discover that the spinning jenny was not invented until June of 1957 and that the inventor was Richard Penniman a/k/a Little Richard who then used his spinning jenny in the hit Jenny, Jenny which reached number 10 on the US charts and number 2 on the US R&B charts.