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.
- 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.
- 1783 –Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
- 1900 –Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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