15 Aprile

The 15t o Aprile is the 105t day o the year (106t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 260 days ti come.

 Events 
 1755 - Johnson's Dictionary furthset.
 1865 - US Preses Abraham Lincoln dees efter bein shot bi John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson taks ower.
 1896 - The closin ceremonies o the 1896 Simmer Olympics tak place.
 1912 -  sank, efter hittin an iceberg, resultin in the daiths o 1,517 fowk.
 1941 - Warld War II: Belfast is attackit bi German bombers.
 1945 - Warld War II: Breetish troops liberate Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.
 1947 - Jackie Robinson, the first African American player in Major League Basebaw, maks his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
 1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens.
 1989 - A crush occurs durin an FA Cup gemme at Hillsborough Stadium o Sheffield, killin 96 Liverpool F.C. fans.
 2002 - Air China Flicht CA129 crashes intae a hillside durin heavy rain an fog naur Pusan, Sooth Korea, killin 128 fowk.
 2010 - The Unitit Kinrick shuts all o its air space due tae volcanic ash frae Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland.
 2013 - A wave o bombins across Iraq kills at least 75 fowk.
 2013 - Twa bombs splode at the Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killin 3 fowk.
 2014 - 200 fowk are massacred in Sooth Sudan's Ceevil War.
 2017 - A suicide car bombin on a bus convoy ootside Aleppo, Sirie, kills at least 126 fowk.
 2018 - The 2018 Commonweel Gemmes in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australie end.
 2019 - Notre-Dame de Paris fire: Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is heavily damaged bi fire.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The nummer o recordit COVID-19 cases warldwide reaches 2 million.

 Births 
1367 – Henry IV o Ingland (d. 1413)
1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, an airchitect (d. 1519)
1469 – Guru Nanak, founder o Sikhism (d. 1539)
1641 – Robert Sibbald, Scots medicinar an antiquary (d. 1722)
1642 – Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1646 – Christian V o Denmark (d. 1699)
1684 – Catherine I o Roushie (d. 1727)
1707 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician an pheesicist (d. 1783)
1710 – William Cullen, Scots medicinar, chemist an agriculturist (d. 1790)
1790 – Barbara Nasmyth, Scots penter (d. 1870)
1797 – Adolphe Thiers, French statesman an historian (d. 1877)
1800 – James Clark Ross, Breetish naval officer an splorer (d. 1862)
1843 – Henry James, American-Breetish writer (d. 1916)
1850 – Daniel John Cunningham, Scots medicinar, zoologist an anatomist (d. 1909)
1858 – Emile Durkheim, French sociologist an philosopher (d. 1917)
1874 – Johannes Stark, German pheesicist (d. 1957)
1892 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch activist (d. 1983)
1894 – Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader (d. 1971)
1912 – Kim Il-sung, Eternal Preses o North Korea (d. 1994)
1920 – Richard von Weizsaecker, Preses o Germany (d. 2015)
1922 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
1924 – Rikki Fulton, Scots actor an comedian (d. 2004)
1927 – Ernie Copland, Scots fitbawer
1930 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4t Preses o Iceland
1931 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swadish poet (d. 2015)
1938 – Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
1944 – Dzhokhar Dudayev, 1st Preses o the Chechen Republic o Ichkerie (d. 1996)
1947 – Lois Chiles, American actress
1949 – Alla Pugacheva, Roushie sanger-sangwriter an actress
1957 – Hwang Kyo-ahn, Sooth Korean politeecian
1959 – Emma Thompson, Inglis actress
1960 – Keeng Philippe o Belgium
1963 – Beata Szydlo, Prime meenister o Poland
1966 – Samantha Fox, Inglis sangster an model
1974 – Danny Way, American skeitchbuirder
1976 – John Lamont, Scots politeecian
1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor, director an producer
1987 – Gary Miller, Scots fitbawer
1990 – Emma Watson, Inglis actress

 Daiths 
1697 – Charles XI o Swaden (b. 1655)
1761 – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke o Argyll, Scots nobleman, politeecian, lawyer, businessman an sodger (b. 1682)
1764 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress tae Louis XV o Fraunce (b. 1721)
1765 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Roushie chemist an pheesicist (b. 1711)
1791 – Alexander Garden, Scots medicinar, botanist an zoologist (b. 1730)
1820 – John Bell, Scots anatomist an surgeon (b. 1763)
1865 – Abraham Lincoln, 16t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1809)
1912 – Victims o the RMS Titanic disaster
William McMaster Murdoch, Scots sailor (b. 1873)
Edward Smith, Inglis captain (b. 1850)
1949 – Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher an writer (b. 1905)
1983 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch activist (b. 1892)
1990 – Greta Garbo, Swadish actress (b. 1905)
1998 – Pol Pot, 29t Prime meenister o Cambodie (b. 1925)
2015 – Surya Bahadur Thapa, Prime meenister o Nepal (b. 1928)
2017 – Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian (b. 1899)

 Halidays 
 Bengali Ne'er's Day
 Warld Airt Day
 Father Damien Day (Hawaii)
 Jackie Robinson Day (American basebaw)
 Tax Day (Unitit States)

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Category:Days o the year