SomeFacts | April 15

On this day - April 15

769 — The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria ...

1071 — Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is ...

1450 — Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' ...

1632 — Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy ...

1642 — Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed ...

1715 — The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War ...

1736 — Foundation of the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica.

1738 — Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives ...

1755 — Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is ...

1817 — Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American ...

1861 — President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 militiamen to quell ...

1865 — President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous ...

1892 — The General Electric Company is formed.

1896 — Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, ...

1900 — Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise ...

1912 — The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North ...

1920 — Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South ...

1922 — U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a ...

1923 — Racially motivated Nihon Shōgakkō fire lit by a serial ...

1923 — Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with ...

1936 — First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.

1941 — In the Belfast Blitz, 200 bombers of the German Luftwaffe ...

1942 — The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of ...

1945 — Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

1947 — Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking ...

1952 — First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.

1955 — McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening ...

1960 — At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker ...

1969 — The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a ...

1970 — During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese ...

1986 — The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its ...

1989 — Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of ...

1989 — Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough ...

1994 — Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade ...

2002 — Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae ...

2013 — A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.

2013 — Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon ...

2014 — In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, more ...

2019 — The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously ...

2021 — A mass shooting occurred at a Fedex Ground facility in ...