WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2026

Today is the 112th day of 2026 and the 34th day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at high noon as thousands of settlers were allowed into the state to claim land. In 1954, live television broadcasting of the U.S. Senate’s Army-McCarthy hearings began. In 1970, an estimated 20 million Americans participated in nationwide demonstrations marking the first Earth Day.

In 2000, federal agents seized 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez from his relatives’ house in Miami to return him to his father in Cuba. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Henry Fielding (1707-1754), author/ playwright; Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), philosopher; Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Soviet leader; J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), physicist; Bettie Page (1923-2008), model/actress; Aaron Spelling (1923-2006), screenwriter/ producer; Glen Campbell (1936-2017), singer-songwriter; Jack Nicholson (1937- ), actor; John Waters (1946- ), filmmaker; Peter Frampton (1950- ), singer-songwriter; Jeffrey Dean Morgan (1966- ), actor; Amber Heard (1986- ), actress; Marshawn Lynch (1986 ), football player/actor; Machine Gun Kelly (1990 ), rapper. TODAY’S FACT: The Senate’s Army-McCarthy hearings were the first nationally televised congressional inquiry. TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2004, former professional football player Pat Tillman was killed by friendly fire while serving as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan.