About April 15
April 15, 2025 is the 105th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 308 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 15
- 1071 –Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
- 1450 –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.
- 1638 –Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.
- 1715 –Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
- 1755 –Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
- 1896 –Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- 1900 –Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
- 1924 –Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 1935 –Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
- 1936 –First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
- 1942 –The George Cross is 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.
- 1955 –McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
- 1960 –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 African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- 1970 –During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
- 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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