Thursday, April 22, 2010 — In one hour and 22 minutes our proofreaders will arrive …
2004—In Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers shoot former NFL football player Specialist Pat Tillman.
2002—“The Taliban is out of business permanently,” says Dick “Dick” Cheney at a GOP fundraiser in Florida.
2000—Federal agents snatch political pawn Elian Gonzalez from his colorful Miami relatives.
1990—Guilford Co., N.C. postpones Earth Day to April 28th so as not to interfere with the K-Mart Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament.
1971—Capitol police arrest 110 Vietnam veterans for serenading the Supreme Court with God Bless America.
1971—Former Navy Lieutenant John Kerry asks Congress, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
1970—Cops shoot and kill Huey Newton, Black Panther.
1963—South Vietnam is “steadily moving toward a constitutional system resting upon popular consent,” according to Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
1956—Rebecca West defines journalism: “An ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.”
1944—A restaurant sit-in by 400 blacks in Washington, DC begins; result: desegregation.
1922—Charles Mingus is born in Nogales, Arizona.
1915—The German army pioneers the use of chlorine gas as a weapon for the first time at the Second Battle of Ypres.
1914—In Baltimore, nineteen-year old Babe Ruth pitches his first game for the Orioles.
1876—In the first game played by National League teams, the Boston Red Stockings beat the Philadelphia Athletics 6-5.