This Day in History
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
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Lincoln dies from an assassin’s bullet
President Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States dies from an assassins bullet. Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theater in...
Titanic sinks
At 220 a.m. on April 15 1912 the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland Canada. The massive s...
President Lincoln dies
At 722 a.m. Abraham Lincoln the 16th president of the United States dies from a bullet wound inflicted the night before by John Wilkes Booth an actor and C...
Pol Pot, leader of Cambodia’s genocidal government, dies in his sleep
Pol Pot the architect of Cambodias killing fields dies of apparently natural causes while serving a life sentence imposed against him by his own Khmer...
Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier
On this day in 1947 Jackie Robinson age 28 becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to ...
Soviets capture Tarnopol in Poland
On this day in 1944 the Soviet Red Army occupies Tarnopol one of the principal cities of Eastern Galicia across the former Polish border.Tarnopol traditiona...
U.S. 1st Infantry Division withdraws from Vietnam
As part of the third phase of U.S. troop withdrawals announced by President Nixon the 1st Infantry Division departs Vietnam. One of the most distinguished unit...
Antiwar protests held in New York and San Francisco
Massive parades to protest Vietnam policy are held in New York and San Francisco. In New York police estimated that 100000 to 125000 people listened to speec...
Jackie Robinson breaks major league color barrier
On April 15 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American in the major leagues when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.Jack Roosevelt...
Lincoln is pronounced dead
On this day in 1865 President Abraham Lincoln succumbs to a gunshot wound inflicted by an assassin the night before he is pronounced dead at 722 am.An angry...
Molly Brown avoids sinking with the Titanic
A 20th century version of the strong and resourceful women of the Wild West Molly Brown wins lasting fame by surviving the sinking of the ...
Bessie Smith is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Despite the immense influence her records had on the shape and course of American popular music in the 20th century the recorded legacy of Bessie Smith only ca...
English author and politician Jeffrey Archer is born
Jeffrey Archer bestselling novelist and politician is born in Somerset England.Archer attended Oxford and later studied in the U.S. In 1969 he was elected t...
Film star Greta Garbo dies
On this day in 1990 the beautiful enigmatic Swedish film star Greta Garbo dies at the age of 84 in New York City.Born Greta Gustaffson Garbo grew up in pove...
Unsinkable Titanic sinks
The RMS Titanic billed as unsinkable sinks into the icy waters of the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage killing 1517 people. The ...
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