1912<\/strong> – The ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – The British defeated the Germans at the battle of Arras.<\/p>\n 1923<\/strong> – Insulin became generally available for people suffering from diabetes.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – In the comic strip “Blondie,” Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead welcomed a baby boy, Alexander. The child would be nicknamed, Baby Dumpling.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – French and British troops landed at Narvik, Norway.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – Jackie Robinson played his first major league baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Previously he had only appeared in exhibition games.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The Arabs were defeated in the first Jewish-Arab battle.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – The first episode of the “Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” radio show aired.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – U.S. President Harry Truman signed the official Japanese peace treaty.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – In Buenos Aires, six people were killed by a bomb at a rally addressed by President Peron.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – Pope Pius XII gave his approval of psychoanalysis but warned of possible abuses.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – Charlie Chaplin surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit rather than face proceedings by the U.S. Justice Department. Chaplin was accused of sympathizing with Communist groups.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – The worlds\u2019 first, all-color TV station was dedicated. It was WNBQ-TV in Chicago and is now WMAQ-TV.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – General Motors announced that the first free piston automobile had been developed.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Cuban leader Fidel Castro began a U.S. goodwill tour.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was organized at Shaw University.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – Richard Speck was found guilty of murdering eight student nurses.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – In Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, the Tokyo Disneyland theme park opened.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Ten members of a family were found murdered in their home in New York City. An infant was found crawling among the corpses.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – In Northhampton, MA, Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman, and 13 others were acquitted on civil disobedience charges related with a CIA protest.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – In New York City, Mbongeni Ngema’s “Asinamali!” opened as the first South African play on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Students in Beijing launched a series of pro-democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests led to the Tiananmen Square massacre.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – In Sheffield, England, 96 people were killed and hundreds were injured at a soccer game at Hillsborough Stadium when a crowd surged into an overcrowded standing area. Ninety-four died on the day of the incident and two later died from their injuries.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The World Trade Organization was established.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Christopher Reeve received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Algeria, former Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president. All of the opposition candidates claimed that the vote was fraudulent and withdrew from the election.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a panel of two Lahore High Court judges convicted former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, of corruption.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – 600 anti-IMF (International Monetary Fund) protesters were arrested in Washington, DC, for demonstrating without a permit.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – In Prospect Harbor, ME, the Stinson Seafood plant stopped sardine processing after 135 years in operation.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Two bombs exploded near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> \u2013 A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> \u2013 In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians were gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong> \u2013 The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 15 April 1912 – The ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived. 1917 – The British defeated the Germans at the battle of Arras. 1923 – Insulin became generally available for people suffering from diabetes. 1934 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[704,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-4279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-15-april","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-171","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23486,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/23486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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