Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 15
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April 15: Universal Day of Culture; Day of the Sun in North Korea; Jackie Robinson Day and Tax Day in the United States
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- 769 – The final session of the Lateran Council, convened to rectify abuses in the papal electoral process that had led to the elevation of the antipopes Constantine II and Philip, was held in Rome.
- 1191 – Henry VI, King of Germany (pictured), was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1755 – A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson was first published, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of English.
- 1802 – English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy encountered a "long belt" of daffodils near Ullswater, inspiring him to pen his best-known work, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
- 1989 – The death of former Chinese General Secretary Hu Yaobang triggered a series of events that led to the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
- 2021 – A mass shooting at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, killed nine and injured seven.
- Joe Davis (b. 1901)
- Michael Smuss (b. 1926)
- Soichi Noguchi (b. 1965)
- Greta Garbo (d. 1990)
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Hillsborough disaster memorial at Hillsborough Stadium
RMS Titanic on April 10, 1912
The Titanic's sinking, as depicted by Willy Stöwer
Hu Yaobang
YB-52
Aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing
Jackie Robinson
John B. Kendrick- Hillsborough Memorial
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason | |
|---|---|---|
| Father Damien Day in Hawaii; | refimprove section | |
| 1715 – The Yamasee War between colonial South Carolina and various Native American Indian tribes began. | refimprove | refimprove section |
| 1861 – At the start of the American Civil War, president Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to quell an insurrection following the bombardment of Fort Sumter. | too many quotes | |
| 1941 – Second World War: Two hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attacked Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing about 1,000 people and rendering roughly 100,000 others homeless. | needs more footnotes | |
| 1986 – U.S. armed forces began bombing Libya to try to reduce that country's ability to support international terrorism. | refimprove section | |
| * 1638 – The Tokugawa shogunate put down a rebellion by Japanese Catholic peasants in Shimabara Domain over increased taxes, resulting in greater enforcement of the policy of national seclusion. | 4 citation needed tags |
Eligible
- 1071 – Byzantine–Norman wars: After a siege of almost three years, Italo-Norman forces conquered the city of Bari, the capital of the Catepanate of Italy, ending more than five centuries of Byzantine presence in the region.
- 1632 – Thirty Years' War: A Swedish–German army defeated the forces of the Catholic League at the Battle of Rain, mortally wounding their commander Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly.
- 1738 – Serse, an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.
- 1912 – More than 1,500 people on the Titanic died when the passenger liner sank after colliding with an iceberg southeast of Newfoundland.
- 1922 – U.S. senator John B. Kendrick introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal involving U.S. president Warren G. Harding's administration, leading to the Teapot Dome scandal.
- 1923 – Ten Japanese-American children were killed in a racially motivated arson attack on a school in Sacramento, California.
- 1927 – Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in at least 145 places, resulting in the worst flooding in the history of the United States.
- 1936 – Two Jews were killed near Tulkarm in Mandatory Palestine, an act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within the Arab revolt.
- 1936 – The Great Arab Revolt in the British Mandate for Palestine began when unknown assailants attacked a convoy of trucks and killed two of the Jewish drivers.
- 1947 – Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.
- 1952 – The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered, strategic bomber operated by the U.S. Air Force for most of the aircraft's history, made its first flight.
- 1955 – American restaurateur Ray Kroc opened the ninth McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, an occasion considered to be the founding of the present corporation.
- 1957 – The Indiaman departed Victoria Coach Station, London, as part of the first UK–India bus service.
- 1958 – On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the U.S. West Coast.
- 1989 – The Hillsborough disaster, a human crush that caused 97 deaths in the worst disaster in British sporting history, occurred during an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield.
- 1994 – At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives of 123 countries and the European Communities signed an agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
- 2002 – Air China Flight 129 crashed on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.
- 2013 – Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off two pressure cooker bombs during the running of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
- 2019 – A fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the cathedral's timber spire and much of the roof.
- Universal Day of Culture
- World Art Day
- Born/died: | Richard Poore |d|1237| Leonardo da Vinci |b|1452| Guru Arjan |b|1563| Robert Persons |d|1610| George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore |d|1632| Leonhard Euler |b|1707| William B. Whiting |b|1731| Mikhail Lomonosov |d|1765| Wilhelm Busch |b|1832| Abraham Lincoln |d|1865| Stanley Bruce |b|1883| Nikita Khrushchev|b|1894| Richard von Weizsäcker |b|1920| Robert W. Gore |b|1937| Claudia Cardinale |b|1938| Hugh Thompson Jr. |b|1943| Emma Thompson |b|1959| Carol W. Greider |b|1961| Arsenio Lacson |d|1962| Dara Torres |b|1967| Milton Bradley |b|1978| Seth Rogen |b|1982| Corrie ten Boom |bd|1892; 1983| Emma Watson |b|1990| Maisie Williams |b|1997| Sam Hughes |b|1997|
Notes
- Messiah (Handel) appears on April 13 so the Serse blurb should not appear in the same year.
- Noah Webster appears on April 14 so the Dictionary blurb should not appear in the same year.
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln appears on April 14, so Abraham Lincoln should not appear in the same year.