April 15
1755 - Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language.
1817 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
1850 - The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1861 - In response to the attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina three days earlier, President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln, age 56, died nine hours after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C; Vice President Andrew Johnson then became the 17th president of the United States.
1892 - General Electric Co., formed by the merger of the Edison Electric Light Co. and other firms, was incorporated in Schenectady, New York.
1912 - The Titanc sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after having struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, resulting in the loss of more than 1,500 lives (706 people survived).
1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British and Canadian forces during World War II.
1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died on April 12, was buried at the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, New York.
1955 - Ray Kroc acquired McDonald's and opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. (That location today serves as the official McDonald's corporate museum.)
1974 - Members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco; a member of the group was SLA kidnap victim Patricia Hearst, who by this time was going by the name “Tania” (Hearst later said she’d been forced to participate).
1986 - The United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya said 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed.
1989 - Students in Beijing launched pro-democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang.
1998 - Cambodian despot Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, died at age 73, evading prosecution for the deaths of more than 2 million Cambodians.
2002 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White died at age 84.
2009 - Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts.
2012 - North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, gave his first public speech since taking power upon death of his father, Kim Jong Il, the previous December, portraying himself as a strong military chief unafraid of foreign powers.
2012 - Passengers and crew of the cruise ship MS Balmoral said prayers at the spot in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank 100 years earlier.
2017 - North Korea paraded its intercontinental ballistic missiles in a massive military display in central Pyongyang as it celebrated the 1912 birthday of the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, with his grandson, Kim Jong Un, looking on with delight.
2019 - Fire swept across the top of the Notre Dame Cathedral as the soaring Paris landmark underwent renovations; the blaze collapsed the cathedral's spire and spread to one of its landmark rectangular towers, but fire officials said the church's structure had been saved.
2020 - The government reported that the nation’s industrial output in March registered its biggest decline since the U.S. demobilized at the end of World War II as factories shut down amid the coronavirus epidemic.
2021 - The White House announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and sanctions against dozens of people and companies; the moves were to hold the Kremlin accountable for interference in the 2020 presidential election and the SolarWinds cyber hacking of federal government agencies.
Birthdays
20 - Makayla Storms (model)
20 - Clara Galle (actress)
25 - Maisie Williams (actress)
32 - Emma Watson (actress)
34 - Leonie Elliott (actress)
35 - Samira Wiley (actress)
36 - Ester Dean (singer)
39 - Margo Price (singer)
39 - Alice Braga (actress)
40 - Seth Rogen (actor)
43 - Luke Evans (actor)
44 - Chris Stapleton (singer)
48 - Douglas Spain (actor)
48 - Danny Pino (actor)
52 - Flex Alexander (actor)
55 - Dara Torres (swimmer)
56 - Samantha Fox (singer)
63 - Emma Thompson (actress)
70 - Sam McMurray (actor)
71 - Heloise (advice columnist)
72 - Amy Wright (actress)
75 - Lois Chiles (actress)
76 - Michael Tucci (actor)
79 - Dave Edmunds (singer)
84 - Claudia Cardinale (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 15
1937 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup.
1947 - Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier when he made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1952 - The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.
1958 - The San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers played the first major league baseball game on the West Coast. This was the first game in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
1965 - The NFL changes the color of its penalty flags from white to bright gold.
1968 - The Houston Astros defeat the New York Mets 1-0 in 24 innings.
1972 - The MLB season began following a players strike.
1979 - Fuzzy Zoeller wins the Masters.
1984 - Ben Crenshaw wins the Masters.
1989 - At least 96 people were killed in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. Most of the victims were crushed when a barrier collapsed on an overcrowded pen behind one of the goals.
1991 - Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers breaks the NBA record for career assists with 9,898.
1991 - The Sacramento Kings establish an NBA record with their 35th consecutive road loss.
1997 - On the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut, Major League Baseball retired his #42 across all franchises.
1996 - Moses Tanui of Kenya won the 100th running of the Boston Marathon.
2000 - The Cleveland Browns select Penn State defensive end Courtney Brown with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2000 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles became the 24th player in MLB history to record 3,000 hits.
2013 - Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 170 others; suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaevl, died in a shootout with police; his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. (A federal appeals court threw out the death sentence, but the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it in March 2022.)
2019 - The Los Angeles Clippers overcome an NBA record 31-point deficit to record a 135-131 Game 2 playoff victory over the Golden State Warriors.
1755 - Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language.
1817 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
1850 - The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1861 - In response to the attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina three days earlier, President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln, age 56, died nine hours after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C; Vice President Andrew Johnson then became the 17th president of the United States.
1892 - General Electric Co., formed by the merger of the Edison Electric Light Co. and other firms, was incorporated in Schenectady, New York.
1912 - The Titanc sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after having struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, resulting in the loss of more than 1,500 lives (706 people survived).
1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British and Canadian forces during World War II.
1945 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died on April 12, was buried at the Roosevelt family home in Hyde Park, New York.
1955 - Ray Kroc acquired McDonald's and opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. (That location today serves as the official McDonald's corporate museum.)
1974 - Members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco; a member of the group was SLA kidnap victim Patricia Hearst, who by this time was going by the name “Tania” (Hearst later said she’d been forced to participate).
1986 - The United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya said 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed.
1989 - Students in Beijing launched pro-democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang.
1998 - Cambodian despot Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, died at age 73, evading prosecution for the deaths of more than 2 million Cambodians.
2002 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White died at age 84.
2009 - Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts.
2012 - North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, gave his first public speech since taking power upon death of his father, Kim Jong Il, the previous December, portraying himself as a strong military chief unafraid of foreign powers.
2012 - Passengers and crew of the cruise ship MS Balmoral said prayers at the spot in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank 100 years earlier.
2017 - North Korea paraded its intercontinental ballistic missiles in a massive military display in central Pyongyang as it celebrated the 1912 birthday of the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, with his grandson, Kim Jong Un, looking on with delight.
2019 - Fire swept across the top of the Notre Dame Cathedral as the soaring Paris landmark underwent renovations; the blaze collapsed the cathedral's spire and spread to one of its landmark rectangular towers, but fire officials said the church's structure had been saved.
2020 - The government reported that the nation’s industrial output in March registered its biggest decline since the U.S. demobilized at the end of World War II as factories shut down amid the coronavirus epidemic.
2021 - The White House announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and sanctions against dozens of people and companies; the moves were to hold the Kremlin accountable for interference in the 2020 presidential election and the SolarWinds cyber hacking of federal government agencies.
Birthdays
20 - Makayla Storms (model)
20 - Clara Galle (actress)
25 - Maisie Williams (actress)
32 - Emma Watson (actress)
34 - Leonie Elliott (actress)
35 - Samira Wiley (actress)
36 - Ester Dean (singer)
39 - Margo Price (singer)
39 - Alice Braga (actress)
40 - Seth Rogen (actor)
43 - Luke Evans (actor)
44 - Chris Stapleton (singer)
48 - Douglas Spain (actor)
48 - Danny Pino (actor)
52 - Flex Alexander (actor)
55 - Dara Torres (swimmer)
56 - Samantha Fox (singer)
63 - Emma Thompson (actress)
70 - Sam McMurray (actor)
71 - Heloise (advice columnist)
72 - Amy Wright (actress)
75 - Lois Chiles (actress)
76 - Michael Tucci (actor)
79 - Dave Edmunds (singer)
84 - Claudia Cardinale (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 15
1937 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup.
1947 - Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier when he made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1952 - The Detroit Red Wings sweep the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.
1958 - The San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers played the first major league baseball game on the West Coast. This was the first game in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
1965 - The NFL changes the color of its penalty flags from white to bright gold.
1968 - The Houston Astros defeat the New York Mets 1-0 in 24 innings.
1972 - The MLB season began following a players strike.
1979 - Fuzzy Zoeller wins the Masters.
1984 - Ben Crenshaw wins the Masters.
1989 - At least 96 people were killed in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. Most of the victims were crushed when a barrier collapsed on an overcrowded pen behind one of the goals.
1991 - Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers breaks the NBA record for career assists with 9,898.
1991 - The Sacramento Kings establish an NBA record with their 35th consecutive road loss.
1997 - On the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut, Major League Baseball retired his #42 across all franchises.
1996 - Moses Tanui of Kenya won the 100th running of the Boston Marathon.
2000 - The Cleveland Browns select Penn State defensive end Courtney Brown with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
2000 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles became the 24th player in MLB history to record 3,000 hits.
2013 - Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring more than 170 others; suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaevl, died in a shootout with police; his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. (A federal appeals court threw out the death sentence, but the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it in March 2022.)
2019 - The Los Angeles Clippers overcome an NBA record 31-point deficit to record a 135-131 Game 2 playoff victory over the Golden State Warriors.
