THIs DAY IN HIsTORY

Today is Thursday, April 22, the 112th day of 2021. There are 253 days left in the year.

IN THe NATION

2005: Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom outside Washington, D.C., to conspiring with the Sept. 11 hijackers to kill Americans. (Moussaoui is serving a life sentence.)

IN THe wORLD

1915: The first full-scale use of deadly chemicals in warfare took place as German forces unleashed chlorine gas against Allied troops at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium during World War I; thousands of soldiers are believed to have died.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Actor Estelle Harris is 93. Actor Jack Nicholson is 84. Author Janet

Evanovich is 78. Country singer Cleve Francis is 76. Movie director John Waters is 75. Musician Peter Frampton is

71. Baseball manager Terry Francona is

62. Comedian and entertainment executive Byron Allen is 60. Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 55. Actor Sheryl Lee is

54. Actor-talk show host Sherri Shepherd is 54. Actor Ingo Rademacher is

50. Actor Amber Heard is 35. Musician Machine Gun Kelly is 31.