About April 15
April 15, 2024 is the 106th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 289 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 15
- 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.
- 1738 –Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
- 1755 –Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
- 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 without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
- 1900 –Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
- 1920 –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.
- 1921 –Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
- 1935 –Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
- 1936 –First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
- 1940 –The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 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.
- 1947 –Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
- 1970 –During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 1992 –The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 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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