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2018 (Sunday) 2017 (Saturday) 2016 (Friday) 2015 (Wednesday) April 15 is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 260 days remain until the end of the year.
30. Events. 1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. 1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified. 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth and Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
1,490–1,635. RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 ( ship's time) [ a] on 14 April.
The 2024 WNBA draft will be held today After a historic college basketball season, Iowa star Caitlin Clark is expected to be drafted with the first overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft today.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
Events. 1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.; 1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.; 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth and Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
August 18: Ghost Festival in China (2024) Blackwater Fire. 684 – Second Fitna: Umayyad partisans defeated the supporters of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr near Damascus, cementing Umayyad control of Syria. 1823 – At least 9,000 enslaved people rebelled in the British colony in Demerara-Essequibo (in present-day Guyana), demanding emancipation.
1961 - Death of Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873) 1996 - Comet Hyakutake was imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. April 5: 1622 - Birth of Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703) 1804 - High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.