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  • 1755 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" is published in London
  • 1861 Federal army of 75,000 volunteers is mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War
  • 1874 First Impressionist art exhibition opens in Paris, features Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot
  • 1877 World's first home telephone is installed in Somerville, Massachusetts at the house of Charles Williams Jr. [1]
  • How one American newspaper reported the Titanic disaster

    Iceberg Sinks 'Unsinkable' Titanic

    1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 lives
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  • 1990 Sketch comedy TV series "In Living Color" premieres on FOX TV
  • 1729 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" premieres at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)
  • 1896 1st Modern Summer Olympic Games close at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece; USA wins gold medal count with 11 and Greece the total medal count with 46
  • 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers
  • 1989 Hillsborough disaster: 96 people are crushed to death and 766 are injured at Hillsborough Football Stadium in Sheffield, England, during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest

Guy Carawan sings "We Shall Overcome" to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh, popularizing the song as a protest anthem

April 15, 1960

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    1452 - 1519

  • Guru Nanak

    1469 - 1539

  • Nikita Khrushchev

    1894 - 1971

  • Kim Il-sung

    1912 - 1994

  • Harold Washington

    1922 - 1987

  • Philippe of Belgium

    65 Years Old
More Birthdays on April 15

  • Lita Grey

    1908 - 1995

  • Elizabeth Montgomery

    1933 - 1995

  • Emma Thompson

    66 Years Old

  • Seth Rogen

    43 Years Old

  • Emma Watson

    35 Years Old

  • Maisie Williams

    28 Years Old

  • Chris Stapleton

    47 Years Old

  • James J. Jeffries

    1875 - 1953

  • Willie Davis

    1940 - 2010

Ray Kroc opens the first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois

April 15, 1955

  • 1595 William I of Orange's daughter Elisabeth of Nassau (17) weds Duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Bouillion (39), becoming Duchess of Bouillon, until his death in 1623
  • 1909 Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
  • 1925 Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna Slonim (23) in Berlin
  • 1994 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
  • 2011 Grammy-winning pop singer Christina Aguilera (29) divorces music executive Jordan Bratman (33) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage
More April 15 Weddings

  • Abraham Lincoln

    1809 - 1865

  • Edward Smith

    1850 - 1912

  • Hugh S. Johnson

    1881 - 1942

  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    1905 - 1980

  • Greta Garbo

    1905 - 1990

  • Pol Pot

    1925 - 1998
More April 15 Deaths
  • The bed on which Abraham Lincoln died hours after being shot by John Wilkes Booth, taken shortly after Lincoln's body was removed

    Abraham Lincoln's Deathbed

    The bed on which Abraham Lincoln died hours after being shot by John Wilkes Booth, taken shortly after Lincoln's body was removed April 15, 1865
  • The wreck of the RMS Titanic at the bottom of the ocean, photographed in 2004

    The Titanic Sinks

    The wreck of the RMS Titanic at the bottom of the ocean, photographed in 2004 April 15, 1912
  • Shrek the sheep, after escaping shearing for 6 years!

    Shrek the Sheep

    Shrek the sheep, after escaping shearing for 6 years! April 15, 2004
  • Thirty minutes from collapse, the Notre Dame' towers and belfries were saved

    Notre Dame on Fire

    Thirty minutes from collapse, the Notre Dame' towers and belfries were saved April 15, 2019
  • The assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lithograph by Gibson & Co., published in 1870

    Weekly Quiz for April 13 - 19

    Who was the first black actor or actress to win an Academy Award? Who shot US President Abraham Lincoln? Is there an effective vaccine for typhoid?
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  • Messiah being performed by Tafelmusik, Toronto. Photo: Gary Beechey.

    Hallelujah! Music That Moved a King

    April 13, 1742
  • Charles Dickens was to write a compassionate letter to his wife after their daughter's death

    Tragedy Writ Large for Charles Dickens

    April 14, 1851
  • Madame Tussaud as depicted at her waxworks in London

    Madame Tussaud's Bloody Background

    April 16, 1850
  • John Heenan, left, squares up to Tom Sayers in their championship bout. Photograph: Hulton Archive

    Police Halt Boxing Match

    April 17, 1860
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