1889

The Oklahoma Land Rush began as thousands of homesteaders staked claims to nearly 1.9 million acres of land that was formerly part of Indian Territory.

1915

German forces unleashed its first full-scale use of chlorine gas against Allied troops at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium during World War I.

2000

In a dramatic raid, armed immigration agents seized 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of a custody dispute, from his relatives’ home in Miami.