22-04-2025
Today in History: April 22, the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889
In 1915, German forces unleashed its first full-scale use of chlorine gas against Allied troops at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium during World War I. Thousands of Allied soldiers are believed to have died from the poison gas attacks.
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In 1954, the publicly televised sessions of the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.
In 1960, Massachusetts poet Anne Sexton had her first collection of poems published, 'To Bedlam and Part Way Back.'
In 1970, an estimated 20 million Americans participated in gatherings for the first Earth Day, a series of events proposed by Senator Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin Democrat, to promote environmental protections.
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In 1994, Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States and the first to resign from office, died at a New York hospital four days after having a stroke. He was 81.
In 2000, in a dramatic predawn raid, armed immigration agents seized 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of a custody dispute, from his relatives' home in Miami. Elian was reunited with his father at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.
In 2005, Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom outside Washington, D.C., to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans. (Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison in May 2006.)
In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, operated by BP, sank into the Gulf of Mexico two days after a massive explosion that killed 11 workers.
