WillDekkard
04-15-2010, 04:46 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- April 15th
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* 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.
* 1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
* 1738 – Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
* 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
* 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 after being shot hours earlier, the previous day, by actor John Wilkes Booth.
* 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
* 1906 – The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
* 1912 – The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20am, two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg the previous day. 1,517 people are killed.
* 1920 – Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti supposedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
* 1921 – Black Friday, mine owners announce increase in wages 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.
* 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 killing one thousand people.
* 1942 – 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.
* 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
* 1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
* 1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
* 1958 – Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
* 1979 – A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
* 1986 – The United States launches 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 F.C. 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.
* 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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- April 15th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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.
* 1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
* 1738 – Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
* 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
* 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 after being shot hours earlier, the previous day, by actor John Wilkes Booth.
* 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
* 1906 – The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
* 1912 – The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20am, two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg the previous day. 1,517 people are killed.
* 1920 – Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti supposedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
* 1921 – Black Friday, mine owners announce increase in wages 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.
* 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 killing one thousand people.
* 1942 – 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.
* 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
* 1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
* 1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
* 1958 – Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
* 1979 – A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
* 1986 – The United States launches 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 F.C. 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.
* 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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