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Events on the 15th of April in history

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15 Apr 0069 Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
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15 Apr 0769 The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.
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15 Apr 1045 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp
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15 Apr 1071 Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
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15 Apr 1205 Battle at Adrianople Bulgaria beats Emperor Boudouin of Constantinople
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15 Apr 1250 Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
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15 Apr 1395 Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
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15 Apr 1450 Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
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15 Apr 1450 French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
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15 Apr 1493 Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
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15 Apr 1581 Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
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15 Apr 1594 Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
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15 Apr 1595 Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth
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15 Apr 1621 Hugo the Great arrives in France
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15 Apr 1632 Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
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15 Apr 1632 Swedish & Saxon army beat Earl Tilly
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15 Apr 1642 Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army.
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15 Apr 1689 French king Louis XIV declares war on Spain
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15 Apr 1697 Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
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15 Apr 1715 The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
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15 Apr 1715 Uprising of Yamasse-Indians in South Carolina
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15 Apr 1716 Russian & Prussian troops occupy Wismar
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15 Apr 1729 Johann S Bachs "Matth
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15 Apr 1738 Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
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15 Apr 1738 Bottle opener invented
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15 Apr 1755 Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
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15 Apr 1776 Duchess of Kingston found guilty of bigamy
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15 Apr 1783 Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
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15 Apr 1784 1st balloon flight in Ireland
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15 Apr 1788 England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
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15 Apr 1793 Bank of England hands out 1st
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15 Apr 1800 James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
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15 Apr 1802 William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
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15 Apr 1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
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15 Apr 1817 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford CT)
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15 Apr 1850 City of San Francisco incorporated
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15 Apr 1851 Earl G Andr
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15 Apr 1853 Protestant church questions king Willem III Roman Catholic bishops
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15 Apr 1858 Battle of Azimghur, Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
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15 Apr 1861 President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War
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15 Apr 1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Abraham Lincoln
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15 Apr 1864 General Steeles' Union troops occupies Camden AR
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15 Apr 1865 President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
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15 Apr 1865 Otto von Bismarck elevated to earl
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15 Apr 1870 Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
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15 Apr 1874 New York legislature passes compulsory education law
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15 Apr 1877 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Massachusetts
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15 Apr 1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
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15 Apr 1892 General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in New York
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15 Apr 1892 The General Electric Company is formed.
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15 Apr 1895 Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
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15 Apr 1896 Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
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15 Apr 1896 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
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15 Apr 1900 Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
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15 Apr 1900 An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hours
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15 Apr 1900 International Exposition opens in Paris France
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15 Apr 1901 1st British motorized burial
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15 Apr 1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
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15 Apr 1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On the Church in the US"
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15 Apr 1907 Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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15 Apr 1909 New York Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
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15 Apr 1909 Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
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15 Apr 1910 William Howard Taft is 1st US President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
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15 Apr 1911 Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St, New York City
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15 Apr 1911 Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
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15 Apr 1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
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15 Apr 1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
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15 Apr 1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM in North Atlantic as the band plays on
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15 Apr 1915 New York Giant Rube Marquard no-hits Brooklyn, 2-0
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15 Apr 1915 Manuel de Falla's ballet "El Amor Brujo", premieres in Madrid
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15 Apr 1918 Clemenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents
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15 Apr 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.
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15 Apr 1920 New Canadian small cent coin is released
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15 Apr 1921 Black Friday: Mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
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15 Apr 1921 Black Friday-Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
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15 Apr 1922 Banting, MacLeod and Best discover insulin
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15 Apr 1922 U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
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15 Apr 1922 Poodle Dog Restaurant closes
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15 Apr 1922 Frederick Banting, John MacLeod & Charles Best discover insulin
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15 Apr 1923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
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15 Apr 1923 Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
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15 Apr 1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
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15 Apr 1924 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
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15 Apr 1924 WHO-AM in Des Moines IA begins radio transmissions
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15 Apr 1924 Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium, 1 dead
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15 Apr 1925 NHL's New York Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
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15 Apr 1927 Switzerland and the USSR agree to diplomatic relations
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15 Apr 1927 The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
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15 Apr 1927 Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 homeruns of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
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15 Apr 1928 Alioto's on Fisherman's Wharf (San Francisco) forms
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15 Apr 1931 The 1st walk across America backwards began
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15 Apr 1935 Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
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15 Apr 1936 Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
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15 Apr 1936 First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
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15 Apr 1937 Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers, 3 games to 2
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15 Apr 1939 Albert Lebrun elected President of France
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15 Apr 1940 The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
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15 Apr 1940 British troops land at Narvik Norway
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15 Apr 1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hour duration, Stratford, Connecticut
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15 Apr 1941 In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
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15 Apr 1942 The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI.
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15 Apr 1942 George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta
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15 Apr 1943 Metropolitan Life Insurance issues a $225 million check to Chase
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15 Apr 1945 The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
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15 Apr 1945 FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
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15 Apr 1945 British & Canadian troops liberate Nazi camp of Bergen-Belsen
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15 Apr 1945 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
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15 Apr 1945 US troops occupy concentration camp Colditz
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15 Apr 1947 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
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15 Apr 1947 Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
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15 Apr 1947 Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
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15 Apr 1948 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, Arabs defeated
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15 Apr 1948 Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh created
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15 Apr 1948 KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
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15 Apr 1949 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
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15 Apr 1951 Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
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15 Apr 1952 Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings sweep Montreal Canadiens in 4 games
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15 Apr 1952 The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
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15 Apr 1952 1st B-52 prototype test flight
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15 Apr 1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
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15 Apr 1952 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings sweep Montr
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15 Apr 1953 Malans National Party wins South African elections
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15 Apr 1953 WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1954 Orioles 1st game in Baltimore; beat White Sox 3-1
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15 Apr 1954 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Edward Barrow
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15 Apr 1954 KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1954 WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1955 McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
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15 Apr 1955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
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15 Apr 1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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15 Apr 1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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15 Apr 1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
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15 Apr 1957 KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1957 Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs Post Office $41 million
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15 Apr 1958 10th Emmy Awards Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win
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15 Apr 1958 1st baseball game in California, San Francisco Giants beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-0
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15 Apr 1959 Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
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15 Apr 1959 US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resigns
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15 Apr 1960 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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15 Apr 1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw University
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15 Apr 1961 "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
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15 Apr 1962 US national debt above $300,000,000,000
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15 Apr 1963 "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
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15 Apr 1964 The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
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15 Apr 1964 Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (Bridge-Tunnel measures 17.6 miles (28.4 km) and is considered the world's largest bridge-tunnel complex)
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15 Apr 1964 Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
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15 Apr 1965 NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
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15 Apr 1965 James Baldwin's "Amen Corner", premieres in NYC
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15 Apr 1966 Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
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15 Apr 1966 The Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
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15 Apr 1966 KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1967 "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 performances
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15 Apr 1968 Houston Astros beat the New York Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
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15 Apr 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.
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15 Apr 1969 North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
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15 Apr 1970 "Cry for Us All" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
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15 Apr 1970 Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
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15 Apr 1970 During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
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15 Apr 1970 Libyan leader Qadhafi launches "Green Revolution"
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15 Apr 1970 WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez Puerto Rico ([M]) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1970 WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce Puerto Rico ([P]) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1971 "70, Girls, 70" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
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15 Apr 1971 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton, " George C Scott and Glenda Jackson win
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15 Apr 1972 Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Carole King & Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President
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15 Apr 1973 Walt Disney Story opens
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15 Apr 1973 2nd Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
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15 Apr 1974 3rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:47:11
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15 Apr 1974 78th Boston Marathon won by Neil Cusack of Ireland in 2:13:39
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15 Apr 1974 Military coup in Niger, President Diori Hamani deposed
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15 Apr 1975 Penguins 3-Isles 1 - Quarterfinals - Penguins hold 2-0 lead
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15 Apr 1975 1st appearance of the San Diego Chicken
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15 Apr 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 3-New York Islanders 1-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 2-0 lead
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15 Apr 1975 Gabon amends constitution
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15 Apr 1976 Yankee Stadium reopens, Yankees beat Twins after trailing 4-0
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15 Apr 1977 1st baseball game at Montr
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15 Apr 1978 43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna Italy
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15 Apr 1978 Great Britain performs nuclear test
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15 Apr 1979 43rd Golf Masters Championship Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
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15 Apr 1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
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15 Apr 1982 Apollo Computer announces DN400, DN420, & landscape display
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15 Apr 1983 Rangers 0-Isles 5 - Patrick Division Finals - Isles hold 2-0 lead
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15 Apr 1983 New York Rangers 0-New York Islanders 5-Patrick Division Finals-Islanders hold 2-0 lead
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15 Apr 1983 Tokyo Disneyland opens
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15 Apr 1984 "Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
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15 Apr 1984 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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15 Apr 1984 The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City.
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15 Apr 1984 48th Golf Masters Championship Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277
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15 Apr 1984 Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
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15 Apr 1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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15 Apr 1985 Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
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15 Apr 1985 Geoff Smith wins his 2nd straight Boston Marathon
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15 Apr 1985 14th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lisa Larsen Weidenbach in 2:34:06
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15 Apr 1985 89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05
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15 Apr 1985 South Africa will repeal sex & marriage laws against whites & non-whites
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15 Apr 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.
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15 Apr 1986 US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing
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15 Apr 1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls vs England in Antigua Test Cricket
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15 Apr 1987 "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
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15 Apr 1987 "Barbara Cook A Concert For Theatre, Grand Hotel, and The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
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15 Apr 1987 Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy", premieres in NYC
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15 Apr 1988 Meteorite explode above Indonesia
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15 Apr 1988 Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles", premieres in NYC
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15 Apr 1989 Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
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15 Apr 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.
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15 Apr 1989 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
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15 Apr 1989 South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
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15 Apr 1989 Then largest lottery in North America ($69 million) drawn in Illinois
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15 Apr 1989 Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
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15 Apr 1989 Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
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15 Apr 1990 "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
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15 Apr 1990 Greenidge and Haynes make 298 opening stand (vs. England), their best
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15 Apr 1990 "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV
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15 Apr 1991 "Secret Garden" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 706 performances
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15 Apr 1991 Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
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15 Apr 1991 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week
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15 Apr 1991 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18
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15 Apr 1991 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06
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15 Apr 1991 East-Europe Bank forms in London
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15 Apr 1991 Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa
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15 Apr 1991 Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assists with 9,898
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15 Apr 1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road
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15 Apr 1991 Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
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15 Apr 1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsley is sent to jail for tax evasion
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15 Apr 1992 Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight Show
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15 Apr 1992 Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx loses its accreditation
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15 Apr 1992 New York Islander, Al Arbour, coaches the most NHL games (1,438)
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15 Apr 1992 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame
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15 Apr 1994 Indians lose 1st game at Jacobs Field, Kansas City wins 2-1
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15 Apr 1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
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15 Apr 1994 WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
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15 Apr 1996 "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance
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15 Apr 1996 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
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15 Apr 1996 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
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15 Apr 1997 America OnLine, begins service in Japan
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15 Apr 1997 Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams
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15 Apr 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM
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15 Apr 2013 Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
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15 Apr 2014 A total lunar eclipse occurs, producing a Blood Moon.
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15 Apr 2014 More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.
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