TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, APRIL 22, the 112th day of 2017. There are 253 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1864, Congress authorized the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins.

In 1952, an atomic test in Nevada became the first nuclear explosion shown on live network television as a 31-kiloton bomb was dropped from a B-50 Superfortress.

In 1954, the publicly televised sessions of the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began.

In 1970, millions of Americans concerned about the environment observed the first “Earth Day.”

In 1987, Joe Hunt, leader of a social and investment group called the “Billionaire Boys Club,” was convicted by a jury in Santa Monica, Calif., of murdering Ron Levin, a con man whose body was never found. Hunt was sentenced to life in prison.

In 1994, Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died at a New York hospital four days after suffering a stroke; he was 81.

In 2000, in a dramatic pre-dawn raid, armed immigration agents seized 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.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Charlotte Rae is 91. Actress Estelle Harris is 89. Singer Glen Campbell is 81. Actor Jack Nicholson is 80. Singer Mel Carter is 78. Author Janet Evanovich is 74. Movie director John Waters is 71. Singer Peter Frampton is 67. Actor Ryan Stiles and baseball manager Terry Francona are 58. Comedian Byron Allen is 56. Rock musician Fletcher Dragge and actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan are 51. Country singer Kellie Coffey, and actors Eric Mabius and Ingo Rademacher are 46. Rock musician Shavo Odadjian (System of a Down) is 43. Actress Michelle Ryan is 33. Actress Amber Heard is 31.