April 15 Historical Events
The following events took place on April 15. The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 1942The George Cross is awarded “to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders” by King George VI.
- 1945The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
- 1947Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
- 1952The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
- 1955McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
- 1960At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
- 1964The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
- 1969The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
- 1970During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
- 1983Tokyo Disneyland opens to the public.
- 1984The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City.
- 1986The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
- 1989Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
- 1989Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
- 2013Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
- 2014More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.
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