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

## Daiths

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