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History Events on April 15

By  Renee Hodge  15 Apr   86 Views

History Events on April 15

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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.

#Battle_of_Formigny

In 1450

Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

#Battle_of_Rain

In 1632

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

#Thomas_Hopkins_Gallaudet

In 1817

Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

#Jackie_Robinson

In 1947

Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

#Samuel_Johnson

In 1755

Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.

#Serse

In 1738

Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

#1896_Summer_Olympics

In 1896

U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.

#John_B._Kendrick

In 1922

During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.

#Cambodian_Civil_War

In 1970

President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.

#John_Wilkes_Booth

In 1865

The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.

#Notre-Dame_de_Paris

In 2019

The General Electric Company is formed.

#General_Electric

In 1892

The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.

#Lateran_Council_(769)

In 769

Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.

#Insulin

In 1923

At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

#Shaw_University

In 1960

Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Battle of the Terek River. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the throne.

#Timur

In 1395

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

#Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp

In 1945

Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.

#American_Revolutionary_War

In 1783

Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

#Bari

In 1071

Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.

#Hillsborough_disaster

In 1989

Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica.

#Kingdom_of_Corsica_(1736)

In 1736

In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.

#Belfast_Blitz

In 1941

McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

#McDonald's

In 1955

President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.

#Abraham_Lincoln

In 1861

Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.

#Philippine-American_War

In 1900

Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.

#Irish_Confederate_Wars

In 1642

The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI.

#George_Cross

In 1942

Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.

#Hu_Yaobang

In 1989

In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians were gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.

In 2014

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

In 2013

Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.

In 2013

Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.

In 1994

The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.

In 1986

The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.

In 1969

First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.

In 1952

First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.

In 1936

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

In 1924

Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.

In 1920

The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.

In 1912

Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In 1907

The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

In 1715

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