April
15
Fordicidia
(Roman Empire)
Hillsborough Disaster Memorial (Anfield at Liverpool)
Jackie Robinson Day (Major League Baseball)
Latest day on which New Year festivals in South
and Southeast Asian cultures can fall. (see April
14)
Tax Day, the official deadline for filing an individual
tax return (or requesting an extension). (United
States, Philippines)
Events
1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
and Laurent Clerc founded the American School
for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf
students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining
consciousness after being shot the previous evening
by actor John Wilkes Booth.
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I
Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1912 – The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic,
sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two
and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517
people are killed.
1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more
wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of
a strike all across England.
1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for
use by people with diabetes.
1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the
most destructive river flood in U.S. history,
begins.
1943 – An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva
automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of
Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding
to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray
Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea
shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over
the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1979 – A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs
on Montenegro coast.
1989 – 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.
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 initiating the World Trade Organization
(effective January 1, 1995).
2002 – An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129
crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and
fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
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