The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1986US April 1986 military operation in Libya
In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War📜 WARS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 15 April 20142014 mass killing of civilians during the South Sudanese Civil War
First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1952American strategic bomber aircraft
Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 CHINA🗓️ 15 April 20022002 aviation accident in South Korea
The General Electric Company is formed.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1892American multinational conglomerate (1892–2024)
Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 15 April 1994April 1994 international free trade agreement signed in Marrakech, Morocco
Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 CHINA🗓️ 15 April 20022002 aviation accident in South Korea
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.📜 WARS🌍 GERMANY🗓️ 15 April 1945Nazi concentration camp in Germany (1940–1945)
The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1986US April 1986 military operation in Libya
Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 15 April 1755English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m.📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1912British passenger liner that sank in 1912
The George Cross is awarded “to the island fortress of Malta” by King George VI.📜 WARS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 15 April 19421942 award by King George VI to the people of Malta
The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1715Conflict between Carolinian colonial settlers and Native American tribes (1715–17)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons)📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1817American educator (1787–1851)
President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1861President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Three hours later📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 18651865 murder in Washington, D.C., US
The General Electric Company is formed.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 15 April 1892American multinational conglomerate (1892–2024)