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April 15
From TheBestLinks.com
April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining.
Events
- 1450 - Battle of Formigny; Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in northern France.
- 1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
- 1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
- 1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
- 1865 - Andrew Johnson is inaugurated as the 17th President of the United States.
- 1912 - The passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks at about 2:20 am after hitting an iceberg hours earlier.
- 1920 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
- 1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.
- 1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 1927 - Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Norma and Constance Talmadge become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
- 1940 - The Allies start their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which was occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
- 1955 - The first McDonald's restaurant opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.
- 1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens.
- 1985 - Marvin Hagler defeats Thomas Hearns by a knockout in round three to retain boxing's world Middleweight championship at The War.
- 1989 - The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies of European football, occurs as Liverpool F.C. fans get involved in a crowd stampede that kills 96 people.
- 1989 - Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
- 1994 - Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and setting up the World Trade Organization (effective January 1 1995).
- 1997 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.
- 2001 - Easter day (not again until 2063).
- 2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200 crashes into hillside during heavy rain and fog near Pusan, South Korea killing 128.
Births
- 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, artist (d. 1519)
- 1642 - Suleiman II, Sultan, Ottoman Empire (d. 1691)
- 1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
- 1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (d. 1758)
- 1707 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician (d. 1783)
- 1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer (d. 1864)
- 1800 - James Clark Ross, explorer (d. 1862)
- 1815 - Mary Ann Day Brown, wife of John Brown (d. 1884)
- 1832 - Wilhelm Busch, poet, graphic artist and painter (d. 1908)
- 1843 - Henry James, author (d. 1916)
- 1858 - Emile Durkheim, sociologist (d. 1917)
- 1861 - Bliss Carman, poet (d. 1929)
- 1878 - Robert Walser, lyricist and narrator (d. 1956)
- 1879 - Melville Henry Cane, U.S. lawyer and poet (d. 1980)
- 1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
- 1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. muralist (d. 1975)
- 1894 - Bessie Smith, blues singer (d. 1937)
- 1895 - Clark McConachy, billiards and snooker player (d. 1980)
- 1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
- 1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
- 1912 - Kim Il Sung, dictator of North Korea (d. 1994)
- 1916 - Helene Hanff, author (d. 1997)
- 1917 - Hans Conried, actor (d. 1982)
- 1920 - Richard von Weizäcker, President of Germany 1984-1994
- 1921 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut (d. 1995)
- 1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland
- 1931 - Raymond McNally, author (d. 2002)
- 1933 - Roy Clark, country musician
- 1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (d. 1995)
- 1933 - Boris Strugatsky, author
- 1938 - Claudia Cardinale, actress
- 1940 - Jeffrey Archer, author, Member of Parliament
- 1942 - Walt Hazzard, basketball star
- 1944 - Dave Edmunds, musician
- 1950 - Amy Wright, actress
- 1951 - Heloise, newspaper columnist
- 1954 - Seka, pornographic film actress
- 1955 - Dodi Fayed, businessman (d. 1997)
- 1957 - Evelyn Ashford, track athlete
- 1959 - Emma Thompson, actress
- 1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, actor
- 1960 - Tony Jones, English snooker player
- 1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, hurdler
- 1965 - Linda Perry, musician
- 1966 - Samantha Fox, singer
- 1967 - Dara Torres, swimmer
- 1968 - Stacey Williams, supermodel
- 1972 - Arturo Gatti, world champion boxer
- 1979 - Eric Kelley-Dodds, architect and philosopher
- 1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian NHL player
- 1990 - Emma Watson, actress
Deaths
- 1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian geographer (b. 1793)
- 1843 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
- 1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer (b. 1773)
- 1865 - Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States (b. 1809)
- 1888 - Father Damien, missionary priest in Hawaii (b. 1840)
- 1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
- 1911 - Antoine Lumière, photographer, industrialist, father of Auguste and Louis Lumière
- 1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, businessman (b. 1864)
- 1912 - Benjamin Guggenheim, businessman (b. 1865)
- 1942 - Robert Musil, novelist (The Man Without Qualities) (b. 1880)
- 1949 - Wallace Beery, actor (b. 1885)
- 1969 - Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Maria Christina of Battenberg, Queen consort of Spain
- 1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter
- 1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and writer (b. 1905)
- 1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
- 1984 - Tommy Cooper, comedy magician (b. 1921)
- 1986 - Jean Genet, author (b. 1910)
- 1988 - Kenneth Williams, actor and comedian (b. 1926)
- 1990 - Greta Garbo, actress (b. 1905)
- 1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, geologist (b. 1908)
- 1993 - Leslie Charteris, author (b. 1907)
- 1998 - Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
- 2000 - Edward Gorey, illustrator (b. 1925)
- 2001 - Joey Ramone, lead singer for The Ramones (b. 1951)
- 2002 - Damon Knight, science fiction author (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances
April 14 - April 16 - March 15 - May 15 -- listing of all days
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ca:15 d'abril
cy:15 Ebrill
da:15. april
de:15. April
et:15. aprill
es:15 de abril
eo:15-a de aprilo
fr:15 avril
fy:15 april
ko:4월 15일
hr:15. travnja
is:15. apríl
it:15 aprile
he:15 באפריל
lt:Balandžio 15
lb:15. Abrëll
nl:15 april
ja:4月15日
no:15. april
oc:15 d'abril
pl:15 kwietnia
ro:15 aprilie
sl:15. april
fi:15. huhtikuuta
sv:15 april
tl:Abríl 15
vi:15 tháng 4
tr:15 Nisan
uk:15 квітня
zh:4月15日
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