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.
- 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.
- 1783 –Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1923 –Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
- 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.
- 1940 –The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1941 –In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
- 1942 –The George Cross is awarded to “to the island fortress of Malta – its people and defenders” by King George VI.
- 1986 –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.
- 1992 –The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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