Today is the 110th day of 2014 and the 32nd day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium for the first time.

In 1909, the city of Tel Aviv was founded in Israel.

In 1946, the League of Nations officially dissolved.

In 1999, two students killed 12 fellow students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.

In 2010, a gas explosion and fire killed 11 people on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, beginning an oil spill that would not be capped for several months.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator; Harold Lloyd (1893-1971), actor; Lionel Hampton (1908-2002), jazz musician; Tito Puente (1923-2000), jazz musician; George Takei (1937- ), actor; Ryan O'Neal (1941- ), actor; Steve Spurrier (1945- ), football coach; Jessica Lange (1949- ), actress; Luther Vandross (1951-2005), singer-songwriter; Crispin Glover (1964- ), actor; Andy Serkis (1964- ), actor/director; Carmen Electra (1972- ), actress.

TODAY'S FACT: England sent criminals to Australia for forced labor and isolation from society well into the 19th century.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2008, Danica Patrick won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first female driver to win an IndyCar race.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval." -- George Takei

TODAY'S NUMBER: 118 -- identified chemical elements on the current periodic table.

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (April 15) and last quarter moon (April 22).

Today is the 109th day of 2014 and the 31st day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1775, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War were fought at Lexington and Concord, Mass.

In 1943, an uprising began in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland.

In 1993, a fire broke out at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, killing 76 people and ending a 51-day siege by federal and state authorities.

In 1995, a truck bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168.

In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope; he selected the pontifical name Benedict XVI.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Eliot Ness (1903-1957), law enforcement agent; Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), actress; Dudley Moore (1935-2002), actor; Tim Curry (1946- ), actor; Al Unser Jr. (1962- ), race car driver; Ashley Judd (1968- ), actress; James Franco (1978- ), actor; Kate Hudson (1979- ), actress; Troy Polamalu (1981- ), football player; Joe Mauer (1983- ), baseball player; Maria Sharapova (1987- ), tennis player.

TODAY'S FACT: More than 14 percent of the world's population speaks Mandarin Chinese as a first language. Five percent of the world's population speaks English as a first language.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1897, New Yorker John J. McDermott won the first Boston Marathon with a time of 2:55:10.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "I will only be the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church until 8 p.m. and then no longer. I will simply be a pilgrim who is starting the last phase of his pilgrimage on this earth." -- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, during his last public appearance as pope on Feb. 28, 2013

TODAY'S NUMBER: 175 -- days in orbit for Salyut 1, the first space station, launched by the Soviet Union on this day in 1971.

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (April 15) and last quarter moon (April 22).

Today is the 108th day of 2014 and the 30th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride, warning, "The British are coming!"

In 1906, the Great San Francisco Earthquake struck, killing an estimated 3,000 people and destroying 80 percent of the city.

In 1942, Lt. Col. James Doolittle led a squadron of U.S. planes in the bombing of Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

In 1983, a suicide bombing at a United States embassy left 63 dead in Beirut, Lebanon.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Franz von Suppe (1819-1895), composer; Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), lawyer; Wendy Barrie (1912-1978), actress; Hayley Mills (1946- ), actress; James Woods (1947- ), actor; Jeff Dunham (1962- ), ventriloquist/comedian; Conan O'Brien (1963- ), TV personality; Maria Bello (1967- ), actress; David Tennant (1971- ), actor; Eli Roth (1972- ), filmmaker; Miguel Cabrera (1983- ), baseball player; America Ferrera (1984- ), actress.

TODAY'S FACT: Paul Revere was detained by British soldiers before he could complete his "midnight ride" from Boston to Concord, Mass.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1923, Yankee Stadium, the "House That Ruth Built," opened to baseball fans in the Bronx, N.Y.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." -- Clarence Darrow

TODAY'S NUMBER: $400 million -- estimated property damage (in 1906 dollars) caused by the Great San Francisco Earthquake and subsequent fires.

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (April 15) and last quarter moon (April 22).