April 15th Events |
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| April 15th, 2002 (April 15 2002) | Event | An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128. | |
| April 15th, 1997 (April 15 1997) | Event | Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343. | |
| April 15th, 1994 (April 15 1994) | Event | Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995). | |
| April 15th, 1992 (April 15 1992) | Event | The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. | |
| April 15th, 1989 (April 15 1989) | Event | Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of football club Sheffield Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans. | |
| April 15th, 1989 (April 15 1989) | Event | Upon Hu Yaobang s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People s Republic of China. | |
| April 15th, 1986 (April 15 1986) | Event | The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya. | |
| April 15th, 1984 (April 15 1984) | Event | British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack while live on TV. | |
| April 15th, 1979 (April 15 1979) | Event | A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast. Media:http://lemnos.geo.auth.gr/~zroum/Albania/Albania.htm[1] | |
| April 15th, 1967 (April 15 1967) | Event | Scotland defeats rival England 3-2 at Wembley Stadium, causing the Scots fans to jokingly claim their side as "Unofficial world Champions", creating the phenomenon of the Unofficial Football World Championships. | |
| April 15th, 1957 (April 15 1957) | Event | White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city. | |
| April 15th, 1955 (April 15 1955) | Event | Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald s restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. | |
| April 15th, 1952 (April 15 1952) | Event | The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress | |
| April 15th, 1947 (April 15 1947) | Event | Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball s color line. | |
| April 15th, 1945 (April 15 1945) | Event | The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. | |
| April 15th, 1943 (April 15 1943) | Event | An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians. | |
| April 15th, 1942 (April 15 1942) | Event | George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Maltaits people and defenders" by King George VI. | |
| April 15th, 1941 (April 15 1941) | Event | In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people. | |
| April 15th, 1940 (April 15 1940) | Event | The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany. | |
| April 15th, 1924 (April 15 1924) | Event | Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. | |
| April 15th, 1923 (April 15 1923) | Event | Insulin becomes generally available for use by diabetics. | |
| April 15th, 1920 (April 15 1920) | Event | Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store. | |
| April 15th, 1912 (April 15 1912) | Event | The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day. | |
| April 15th, 1906 (April 15 1906) | Event | The Armenian organization AGBU is established. | |
| April 15th, 1892 (April 15 1892) | Event | The General Electric Company is formed. | |
| April 15th, 1865 (April 15 1865) | Event | Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| April 15th, 1802 (April 15 1802) | Event | William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. | William Wordsworth Quotes |
| April 15th, 1783 (April 15 1783) | Event | Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified. | |
| April 15th, 1755 (April 15 1755) | Event | Samuel Johnson s A Dictionary of the English Language published in London. | Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| April 15th, 1738 (April 15 1738) | Event | Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. | George Frideric Handel Quotes |
| April 15th, 1715 (April 15 1715) | Event | Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. | |
| April 15th, 1632 (April 15 1632) | Event | Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War. | |
| April 15th, 1450 (April 15 1450) | Event | 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. | |
