April 15

Events1450 - 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.1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified. 1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.1865 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.1892 - The General Electric Company forms.1906 - The establishing of the Armenian organization, AGBU1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, causing the deaths of about 1,503 people.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 concrete 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.1941 - Belfast Blitz Two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attacked Belfast, Northern Ireland. Killing one thousand people.1942 - George Cross awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta - its people and defenders" by King George VI.1943 - An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.1957 - White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.1967 - Scotland defeat rivals 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.1984 - British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack while live on TV.1986 - The United States launch Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.1989 - Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, a football stadium in Sheffield, resulting in 96 deaths.1989 - Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.1992 - National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.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).1997 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
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