22/04/10

Around 50,000 people rushed into the Oklahoma Territory at noon in 1889 to stake homestead claims.  Pravda was published for the first time in 1912.  An explosion in Guadalajara in 1992 killed 206, injured about 500 and left 15,000 homeless.

Born today:  Henry Fielding (1707-1754), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Madame de Staël (1766-1817), V.I. Lenin (1870-1924), Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), Charles Mingus (1922-1979), George Cole (1925), Laurel Aitken (1927-2005), Jack Nicholson (1937), John Waters (1946), Peter Frampton (1950), Paul Carrack (1951), Sean Lock (1963) and Kakà (1982).

It is Earth Day here in the US.