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15 Apr 1205
Battle at Adrianople Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
15 Apr 1250
Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain request to build a synagogue
15 Apr 1250
Kublai is acclaimed the Great Khan by a Mongol Great Council
15 Apr 1450
French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years War
15 Apr 1528
Pnfilo the Narvez Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians
15 Apr 1594
Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)
15 Apr 1621
Hugo Grotius arrives in France after escaping prison in a book chest
15 Apr 1632
Battle of Rain Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Count Tilly of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
15 Apr 1697
Charles XII succeeds Charles XI as King of Sweden
15 Apr 1715
Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
15 Apr 1716
Great Northern War Prussian troops occupy Swedish controlled German port of Wismar
15 Apr 1755
Samuel Johnsons A Dictionary of the English Language published in London
15 Apr 1788
Britain Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
15 Apr 1817
1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Connecticut)
15 Apr 1853
Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
15 Apr 1858
Battle of Azimghur Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists
15 Apr 1864
General Steeles Union troops occupies Camden Arkansas
15 Apr 1865
Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play Our American Cousin at Fords Theatre in Washington
15 Apr 1870
Last day US silver coins allow to circulate in Canada
15 Apr 1874
NY legislature passes compulsory education law
15 Apr 1877
1st telephone installed Boston-Somerville in Massachusetts
15 Apr 1895
Josephine Blatt (US) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)
15 Apr 1896
I Summer Olympic Games close in Athens Greece USA wins gold medal count 11 Greece wins total medal count 46 IOC has retroactively assigned gold silver & bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event
15 Apr 1900
Exposition Universelle (Worlds Fair) in Paris opens (till 12th Nov)
15 Apr 1900
An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
15 Apr 1901
5th Boston Marathon won for second straight year by Canadian Jim Caffrey in race record 22923.6
15 Apr 1901
Pope Leo XIII issues an allocution deploring hostile actions against the Roman Catholic Church throughout Europe
15 Apr 1902
Rioting and arson continue in Russia with peasants plundering estates to find food.
15 Apr 1902
Russian minister of interior and head of secret police Sipyengin is assassinated by the Terror Brigade of the Socialist Revolutionaries
15 Apr 1906
The Armenian organization AGBU is established.
15 Apr 1907
11th Boston Marathon won by Canadian Tom Longboat in race record 22424
15 Apr 1909
NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
15 Apr 1910
William H. Taft is first US President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
15 Apr 1911
Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
15 Apr 1912
16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan in race record 22118.2
15 Apr 1915
Manuel de Fallas ballet El Amor Brujo premieres in Madrid
15 Apr 1918
22nd Boston Marathon won by Camp Devens relay team race run as relay for 10-man military teams
15 Apr 1920
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial paymaster shot and killed along with his guard
15 Apr 1921
Black Friday in Britain leaders of transport and rail unions announce a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners despite widespread feeling decision a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners
15 Apr 1922
The legendary Poodle Dog Restaurant closes in San Francisco
15 Apr 1923
1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
15 Apr 1923
Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
15 Apr 1924
Flemish-Walloon riots in Louvain Belgium 1 dead
15 Apr 1924
WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions
15 Apr 1925
NHLs NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game lose 3-1
15 Apr 1927
Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
15 Apr 1928
Aliotos on Fishermans Wharf (San Francisco) forms
15 Apr 1929
33rd Boston Marathon won by Canadian Johnny Miles in 23308.6 his second win in the event
15 Apr 1935
39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley in 23207.4
15 Apr 1937
Stanley Cup Final Olympia Stadium Detroit MI Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers 3-0 for a 3-2 series win back-to-back titles for Red Wings
15 Apr 1940
44th Boston Marathon won by Grard Ct of Canada in 22828.6 first of 4 wins in the event
15 Apr 1941
1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration Stratford Ct
15 Apr 1943
Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a 225 million check to Chase
15 Apr 1945
British Army liberates Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen
15 Apr 1945
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
15 Apr 1946
50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 22927 first and only Cypriot athlete to win the event
15 Apr 1947
Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
15 Apr 1948
1st Jewish-Arab military battle arabs defeated
15 Apr 1948
KCPX (now KTVX) TV channel 4 in Salt Lake City UT (ABC) 1st broadcast
15 Apr 1949
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri
15 Apr 1951
Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
15 Apr 1952
Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
15 Apr 1952
Stanley Cup Final Olympia Stadium Detroit MI Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens 3-0 for a 4-0 series sweep
15 Apr 1952
The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress prototype
15 Apr 1953
Malans National Party wins South African elections
15 Apr 1953
WHP TV channel 21 in Harrisburg PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Apr 1954
KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock AR (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Apr 1954
Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1
15 Apr 1954
WHO TV channel 13 in Des Moines IA (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Apr 1957
Congress gives Post Office 41M restoring Saturday mail delivery
15 Apr 1957
KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
15 Apr 1957
Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO 41 million
15 Apr 1957
61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley in 22005 course length changed
15 Apr 1958
1st baseball game in California SF Giants beat LA Dodgers 8-0
15 Apr 1960
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizes at Shaw U
15 Apr 1960
Guy Carawan sings We Shall Overcome to a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh - popularising the song as a protest anthem
15 Apr 1961
Music Man closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
15 Apr 1961
France wins its 2nd outright Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 15-3 victory over Ireland at Lansdowne Road Dublin
15 Apr 1963
Sophie opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances
15 Apr 1963
67th Boston Marathon won by Aurle Vandendriessche of Belgium in race record 21858
15 Apr 1965
NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold
15 Apr 1966
KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
15 Apr 1967
Wait A Minim closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 457 performances
15 Apr 1967
France wins its 4th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 11-6 win over Ireland at Lansdowne Road Dublin
15 Apr 1968
Houston Astros beat NY Mets 1-0 in 24 innings
15 Apr 1968
72nd Boston Marathon Amby Burfoot wins in 22217 Bobbi Gibb 1st woman for 3rd straight year in 33000 (unsanctioned)
15 Apr 1969
North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea
15 Apr 1970
Cry for Us All closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 8 performances
15 Apr 1970
Libyan leader Gadaffi launches Green Revolution
15 Apr 1970
WMGZ TV channel 16 in Mayaguez PR ([M]) begins broadcasting
15 Apr 1970
WPSJ TV channel 14 in Ponce PR ([P]) begins broadcasting
15 Apr 1971
70 Girls 70 opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 35 performances
15 Apr 1972
A member of the Official Irish Republican Army is shot dead by British soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of Belfast close to his home
15 Apr 1972
A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the Divis area of Belfast.
15 Apr 1974
78th Boston Marathon Neil Cusack of Ireland takes mens race in 21339 American Miki Gorman womens winner in 24711
15 Apr 1974
Military coup in Niger president Diori Hamani deposed
15 Apr 1976
Yankee stadium reopens Yanks beat Twins after trailing 4-0
15 Apr 1977
1st baseball game at Montreals Olympic Stadium
15 Apr 1978
43 die as 2 express trains collide head-on south of Bologna Italy
15 Apr 1979
43rd US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Fuzzy Zoeller wins his only Masters with a birdie on the 2nd hole of a playoff with Ed Sneed and Tom Watson
15 Apr 1979
A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast.
15 Apr 1981
Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award winning stry about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
15 Apr 1982
Apollo Computer announces DN400 DN420 & landscape display
15 Apr 1984
Human Comedy closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances
15 Apr 1984
48th US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Ben Crenshaw wins the first of his 2 green jackets 2 strokes ahead of 1977 & 1981 champion Tom Watson
15 Apr 1984
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
15 Apr 1984
Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India
15 Apr 1985
89th Boston Marathon Englishman Geoff Smith repeats as mens champion in 21405 American Lisa Larsen Weidenbach takes womens title in 23406
15 Apr 1985
Challenger moves to launch pad for 51-B missing
15 Apr 1986
US air raids Libya responding to La Belle disco Berlin bombing
15 Apr 1986
Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket
15 Apr 1986
The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
15 Apr 1987
Barbara Cook A Concert opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
15 Apr 1987
Alfred Uhrys Driving Miss Daisy premieres in NYC
15 Apr 1988
Wendy Wassersteins Heidi Chronicles premieres in NYC
15 Apr 1989
96 crushed to death at Hillsborough Football Stadium Sheffield England
15 Apr 1989
Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (23048)
15 Apr 1989
Then largest lottery in North America (69M) drawn in Illinois
15 Apr 1990
Greenidge & Haynes make 298 opening stand (v England) combination best
15 Apr 1991
Secret Garden opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances
15 Apr 1991
95th Boston Marathon Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins his 2nd mens title in 21106 Wanda Panfil of Poland womans champion in 22418
15 Apr 1991
Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr
15 Apr 1991
Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
15 Apr 1991
Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to 280 per week
15 Apr 1991
Sacramento Kings set NBA record losing 35th consecutive game on road
15 Apr 1991
Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
15 Apr 1992
Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
15 Apr 1992
Lincoln Hospital in Bronx loses its accreditation
15 Apr 1992
NY Islander Al Arbour coaches most NHL games (1438)
15 Apr 1992
The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
15 Apr 1994
Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field KC wins 2-1
15 Apr 1994
WMMS-FMs Jeff & Flash & entire station staff are fired
15 Apr 1996
Apple Doesnt Fall closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 1 performance
15 Apr 1996
100th Boston Marathon Moses Tanui of Kenya takes centenary mens title in 20915.9 3-peat for Uta Pippig of Germany in womens race in 22712
15 Apr 1997
Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring 42 for all teams
15 Apr 1997
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte NC on WXRC 95.7 FM
15 Apr 1997
Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage the official death toll is 343.
15 Apr 2000
NFL Draft Penn State defensive end Courtney Brown first pick by Cleveland Browns
15 Apr 1581
Cortes van Thomar accepts Philip II as king of Portugal
15 Apr 1957
Saturday mail delivery restored in the US after Congress gives the Post Office 41 million
15 Apr 2001
The Tradition Senior Mens Golf GC at Desert Mountain Doug Tewell wins his second & final Champions Tour major by 9 strokes from Mike McCullough
15 Apr 1250
Pope Innocent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain their request to build a synagogue
15 Apr 1877
Boston-Somerville installs the worlds 1st telephone in Massachusetts
15 Apr 1896
1st modern Summer Olympic Games close in Athens Greece USA wins gold medal count 11 Greece wins total medal count 46 IOC has retroactively assigned gold silver & bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event
15 Apr 1981
Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award-winning story about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
15 Apr 1988
Wendy Wassersteins play Heidi Chronicles premieres in NYC
15 Apr 1989
96 crushed to death and 766 injured at Hillsborough Football Stadium Sheffield England during FA semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest
15 Apr 1991
Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa
15 Apr 1991
Former child actor Adam Rich (Eight Is Enough) charged with burglary
15 Apr 1991
New York State raises maximum unemployment benefits to 280 per week
15 Apr 1991
Dutch checker Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins)
15 Apr 1992
Billionaire Leona Helmsley is sent to jail for tax evasion
15 Apr 1992
Lincoln Hospital in Bronx. New York loses its accreditation
15 Apr 2002
An Air China Boeing 767-200 flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan South Korea killing 128.
15 Apr 1250
Pope Innocent IV refuses Jews of Cordova Spain their request to build a synagogue
15 Apr 1783
American Revolution the Continental Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace ending the seven-year-long war with Great Britain.
15 Apr 1817
The American Asylum [now American School for the Deaf (ASD)] 1st permanent US school for deaf founded by Rev. Thomas Gallaudet Dr. Mason Cogswell and teacher Laurent Clercn (West Hartford Connecticut)
15 Apr 1865
Mobile Alabama is captured by Union forces after a siege led by General Canby
15 Apr 1961
Meredith Willsons musical The Music Man starring Robert Preston and Barbara Cook closes at Majestic Theater NYC. after 1375 performances 5 Tony Awards and a Grammy
15 Apr 1967
France wins its 4th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship with an 11-6 win over Ireland at Lansdowne Road Dublin
15 Apr 1450
Battle of Formigny French defeat the English decisively in the Hundred Years War paving the way for the capture of English strongholds in Normandy
15 Apr 1926
Sesquicentennial Stadium opens in Philadelphia Pennsylvania renamed Philadelphia Municipal Stadium later renamed JFK Stadium (demolished 1992) played host to Tunney-Demspy fight () 41 Army-Navy football games professional football and many concerts including the US portion of Live-Aid (1985)
15 Apr 1502
Nicols de Ovando y Cceres new Governor of the Indies lands in Hispaniola replacing Columbus
15 Apr 1853
Dutch Protestant church petition King Willem III against re-establishment of Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands he does so anyway
15 Apr 1952
Archaeologist Albert Ruz discovers the tomb of Pakal the greatest ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
15 Apr 1952
The maiden flight of the US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress prototype designed and built by Boeing
15 Apr 1996
Boston Athletic Association officially recognizes Bobbi Gibbs three Boston Marathon wins (1966 1967 and 1968) in era prior to women being sanctioned for the race
15 Apr 2009
Even though official government sources state that Argentinas GDP will actually grow this year private consulting firms state that Argentine economy has actually been in recession since October 2008
15 Apr 2010
Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajkull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.
15 Apr 2011
Black Friday for online poker in the US indictment United States v. Scheinberg shuts down sites accusing companies of fraud and money laundering
15 Apr 2012
400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack
15 Apr 2012
China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar
15 Apr 2012
US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated
15 Apr 2013
33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
15 Apr 2017
Suicide car bomb targets buses carrying Syrian evacuees at Rashidin 126 killed including 70 children
15 Apr 2018
126.2 cm (49.69) of rainfall in a day Waip Garden (Kauai). Hawaii (state record breaking previous record of 1956)
15 Apr 2019
3 days after winning Hobey Baker Award as top college hockey player Cale Makar becomes first defenseman to score in NHL debut during the playoffs in Colorados 6-2 Game 3 win over Calgary
15 Apr 2019
Los Angeles Clippers overcome an NBA record 31-point deficit to score an improbable 135-131 Game 2 playoff victory over the Golden State Warriors in Oakland shooting guard Lou Williams 36 points
15 Apr 2019
Measles cases jump 300% in first three months of according to World Health Organization largest rise in Africa (700%) with 800 deaths in Madagascar
15 Apr 1502
Nicols de Ovando y Cceres new Governor of the Indies lands in Hispaniola replacing Christopher Columbus
15 Apr 1654
The Commonwealth of England and the United Netherlands sign a peace treaty ending the First Anglo-Dutch War
15 Apr 1853
Dutch Protestant church petition King William III against re-establishment of Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands he does so anyway
15 Apr 1877
Worlds first home telephone is installed in Somerville Massachusetts at the house of Charles Williams Jr. [1]
15 Apr 1896
I (modern) Summer Olympic Games close at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens Greece USA wins gold medal count 11 Greece wins total medal count 46 IOC has retroactively assigned gold silver & bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event
15 Apr 1936
Irish government authorizes establishment of Aer Lingus (Aerloingeas) as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland
15 Apr 1938
Anti-Jewish riots break out in in Dbrowa Tarnowska Poland
15 Apr 1969
Hi Records releases Green Is Blues the second studio album by American soul singer-songwriter Al Green his first pairing with producer Willie Mitchell led to a long-time collaboration and string of hits in the early 1970s
15 Apr 1989
Hillsborough disaster 96 are crushed to death and 766 injured at the Hillsborough Football Stadium in Sheffield England during a FA semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest
15 Apr 1990
Sketch comedy TV series In Living Color premieres on FOX-TV
15 Apr 1997
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charlotte North Carolina on WXRC 95.7 FM
15 Apr 2020
Revised death count for New York taking into account assumed COVID-19 deaths makes the citys per-capita death rate higher than Italy at 10367 at this date
15 Apr 2020
USs deadliest day during COVID-19 pandemic with 2752 deaths reported
15 Apr 2021
The failed response in Brazil has caused a humanitarian catastrophe reports Dr. Christos Christou president of Doctors Without Borders as country records a quarter of worlds COVID-19 deaths in last week [1]
15 Apr 2021
A shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis Indiana leaves eight dead and five injured
15 Apr 2021
Court in Abidjan Cte dIvoire sentences former warlord Amad Ourmi to a life sentence for massacres by his militia after the 2010 election
15 Apr 2021
India record over 200000 (200739) daily new cases of COVID-19 for the first time with 1038 deaths amid massive second wave
15 Apr 2023
Germany ends its use of nuclear power closing its last three nuclear power plants - Emsland Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim to focus on renewable energy [1]
15 Apr 2023
Indian Atiq Ahmed former lawmaker and convicted criminal assassinated live on TV along with his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj Uttar Pradesh while under police guard [1]
15 Apr 2024
AI systems now so advanced they nearly match or exceed humans in reading comprehension image classification and competition-level mathematics according to major new report [1]
15 Apr 2024
Former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann loses his high profile defamation case against an Australian TV network the court finds he did rape Brittany Higgins in 2019 at parliament [1]
15 Apr 2024
Sudan is on the edge of collapse warn aid agencies on the one-year anniversary of a conflict that has displaced over 8.6 million people including 2 million who fled to neighbouring countries [1]
15 Apr 1205
Battle of Adrianople Bulgarians and Cumans under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria ambush and defeat the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin I
15 Apr 1594
Flemish painter Pieter Stevens is appointed as the royal painter of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague
15 Apr 1632
Battle of Rain Swedish forces under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Count Tilly of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War
15 Apr 1715
Pocotaligo Massacre of four South Carolina representatives triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina
15 Apr 1817
The American Asylum now known as the American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the first permanent US school for the deaf founded by Rev. Thomas Gallaudet Dr. Mason Cogswell and teacher Laurent Clerc in West Hartford Connecticut
15 Apr 1848
77 enslaved people attempt to escape the United States onboard The Pearl in Washington D.C. in the largest nonviolent escape attempt in US history
15 Apr 1896
1st Modern Summer Olympic Games close at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens Greece USA wins gold medal count with 11 and Greece the total medal count with 46
15 Apr 1921
Black Friday in Britain leaders of transport and rail unions announce a decision not to call for strike action in support of coal miners breaking the Triple Alliance of trade unions in the country
15 Apr 1948
F. H. Thornton observes a flash of light in crater Plato on the Moon
15 Apr 1960
Guy Carawan sings We Shall Overcome to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh popularizing the song as a protest anthem
15 Apr 1974
President Diori Hamani is deposed in a military coup in Niger
15 Apr 1976
Yankee stadium reopens after extensive renovation Yankees beat Minnesota Twins after trailing 4-0
15 Apr 1979
Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes the Montenegro and Albanian coast killing 136 people
15 Apr 1982
Apollo Computer announces the DN400 DN420 and landscape display
15 Apr 1986
US aircraft attacks five terrorist and military targets in Libya
15 Apr 1986
US launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya
15 Apr 1989
Hillsborough disaster 96 people are crushed to death and 766 are injured at Hillsborough Football Stadium in Sheffield England during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest
15 Apr 1990
Sketch comedy TV series In Living Color premieres on FOX TV
15 Apr 1992
National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
15 Apr 1992
United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions against Libya
15 Apr 1997
Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca killing 217 to 300 people and injuring 1300
15 Apr 2002
Air China Boeing 767-200 flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan South Korea killing 128 people
15 Apr 2025
148 passengers die after a motorized wooden boat catches fire and capsizes in the Congo River near the town of Mbandaka [1]
15 Apr 2025
Sandstorm puts at least 3700 people in hospitals with breathing difficulties and two airports suspend flights due to poor visibility in central and southern Iraq [1]