April 22 is...

[Ace]

Congratulations, indeed. She is one the most skilled and thoughtful interviewers ever. Master of the trenchant questions. If you had anything to hide, she'd get it out of you. She took no prisoners.

Ace

[Three Valves]

Dan Rather used to be that way too, before he started making **** up!!

[Ken Herrick]

2 days after the birthday of the Austrian born incarnation of the devil who chose fire over rotting in Hell after starting a war that killed something like 60million people. Hard to believe some people still worship him.

[humBell]

Yesterday.

(All my troubles seemed so far away...)

[Ken Herrick]

Yesterday.

(All my troubles seemed so far away...)

Thankfully, there was a "bridge over troubled waters".

[bort]

Mid-April has always seemed like a weird time, with a lot of awful events concentrated within a few calendar days:
Boston Marathon bombing
Columbine
Oklahoma City bombing
Waco Seige

Others too, I'm sure...

[bort]

...the day - in 1976 - that Barbara Walters became the first female nightly network news anchor.

Congratulations, Ms. Walters !!!

And the follow up answer (at least for me!) is that yes, Hugh Downs is alive and well, and is 99 years old (BW is 90!).

[humBell]

Mid-April has always seemed like a weird time, with a lot of awful events concentrated within a few calendar days:
Boston Marathon bombing
Columbine
Oklahoma City bombing
Waco Seige

Others too, I'm sure...

Titanic?

[humBell]

Yesterday.

(All my troubles seemed so far away...)

Thankfully, there was a "bridge over troubled waters".

Must admit, i too like a bridge over troubled waters...

Hopefully we don't have to take the ward out of Homeward Bound for too long...

[Three Valves]

...the day I realized that cost of 20 years of Middle East incursion and loss of life was actually a bargain!!