April 15

Monday 15, 2002:

An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into hillside during heavy rain and fog near Pusan, South Korea killing 128.

Sunday 15, 2001:

Easter day (not again until 2063).

Tuesday 15, 1997:

Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.

Friday 15, 1994:

Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and setting up the World Trade Organization (effective January 1 1995).

Saturday 15, 1989:

Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.

Monday 15, 1985:

Marvin Hagler defeats Thomas Hearns by a knockout in round three to retain boxing's world Middleweight championship in a fight nicknamed The War.

Friday 15, 1983:

Tokyo Disneyland opens.

Friday 15, 1955:

The first McDonald's restaurant opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Tuesday 15, 1947:

Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.

Sunday 15, 1945:

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

Wednesday 15, 1942:

its people and defenders" by King George VI.

Monday 15, 1940:

The Allies start their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which was occupied by Nazi Germany.

Friday 15, 1927:

Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Norma and Constance Talmadge become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Tuesday 15, 1924:

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

Sunday 15, 1923:

Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.

Thursday 15, 1920:

Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.

Thursday 15, 1915:

The Armenian Genocide began when the Ottoman Empire undertook the systematic annihilation of Armenian intellectuals and entrepreneurs within the city of Constantinople and later the entire Armenian population of the Empire.

Monday 15, 1912:

The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks at about 2:20 a.m. after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic almost three hours earlier.

Friday 15, 1892:

The General Electric Company is formed through the merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company.

Saturday 15, 1865:

Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.

Thursday 15, 1802:

William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

Tuesday 15, 1783:

Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.

Tuesday 15, 1755:

Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.

Tuesday 15, 1738:

Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera byGeorge Frideric Handel.

Thursday 15, 1632:

Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

Monday 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.

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