Today is the 109th day of 2026 and the 31st day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1775, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War were fought at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. In 1943, an uprising began in the Warsaw ghetto in German-occupied Poland. In 1993, a fire broke out at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, killing 76 people and ending a 51-day siege by federal and state authorities. In 1995, a truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168. In 2013, one Boston Marathon bombing suspect was killed in a shootout with police while the other escaped and was captured hours later in Watertown,

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Richard Hughes (1900-1976), author; Eliot Ness (1903-1957), law enforcement agent; Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), actress; Dudley Moore (1935-2002), actor; Tim Curry (1946- ), actor; Al Unser Jr. (1962- ), race car driver; Ashley Judd (1968 ), actress; Kate Hudson (1979- ), actress; Troy Polamalu (1981- ), football player; Ali Wong (1982- ), comedian/actress; Maria Sharapova (1987- ), tennis player; Simu Liu (1989- ), actor. TODAY’S FACT: More than 14% of the world’s population speaks Mandarin Chinese as a first language. Approximately 5.5% of the world’s population

speaks English as a first language.