Today is April 15 - the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of the year. Also known as United States official deadline for filing an individual tax return.
On April 15 …
- 1452 – Scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer Leonardo da Vinci was born in the town of Vinci, Florence, in what is now Italy.
- 1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
- 1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
- 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
- 1955 - Ray Kroc opens the first McDonald's hamburger restaurant (
On April 15 …
- 1865, Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America, died at 7:22 a.m. from a gun shot wound.
- 1912 - On the night of 14 April, during her maiden voyage, Titanic hit an iceberg and sank two hours and forty minutes later, early on 15 April
- 1990 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress dies in New York City at age 84
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