Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: April 15
April 15, 2024 is the 106th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Monday.
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
- 1715 –Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
- 1755 –Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
- 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.
- 1923 –Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
- 1936 –First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
- 1940 –The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1952 –The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
- 1969 –The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
- 1970 –During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
- 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.
Who were born on April 15?
- 1469 –Guru Nanak Dev, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus (d. 1539)
- 1688 –Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
- 1843 –Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
- 1875 –James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
- 1889 –Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)
- 1933 –Roy Clark, American musician
- 1937 –Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978)
- 1942 –Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
- 1982 –Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
- 1986 –Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Ghanaian footballer
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