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Day Of The Week: April 15
April 15, 2025 is the 105th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 15
- 1071 –Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
- 1896 –Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- 1912 –The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed.
- 1920 –Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
- 1924 –Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 1927 –The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
- 1941 –In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
- 1955 –McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
- 1986 –The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, 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 fans.
Who were born on April 15?
- 1684 –Empress Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
- 1794 –Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
- 1832 –Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
- 1917 –James Kee, American politician (d. 1989)
- 1922 –Harold Washington, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1930 –Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
- 1933 –Jim Towers, English footballer (d. 2010)
- 1937 –Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978)
- 1987 –Sapphire Elia, English actres
- 1988 –Thomas Albanese, Italian footballer
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