All Events

Historical Events on April 15

  • American Revolutionary War

    1783

    Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    1861

    President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.

  • Abraham Lincoln

    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.

  • General Electric

    1892

    The General Electric Company is formed.

  • Philippine-American War

    1900

    Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.

  • RMS Titanic

    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.

  • Jackie Robinson

    1947

    Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

  • McDonald's

    1955

    McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois

  • Boston Marathon bombings

    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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Famous Deaths on April 15

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