April 15th, 1960

Born on April 15th, 1960

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What happened on April 15th, 1960?

April 15th, 1960

At 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 civil rights movement in the 1960s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_University

What else happened on April 15th?

April 15th, 2019

A fire (pictured) severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the cathedral's timber spire and much of the roof.

April 15th, 2013

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off two pressure cooker bombs during the running of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others.

April 15th, 1989

The Hillsborough disaster, a human crush that caused 97 deaths in the worst disaster in British sporting history, occurred during an FA Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield.

April 15th, 1958

On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the U.S. West Coast.

April 15th, 1957

The Indiaman departed Victoria Coach Station, London, as part of the first UK–India bus service.

April 15th, 1952

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered, strategic bomber operated by the U.S. Air Force for most of the aircraft's history, made its first flight.

April 15th, 1947

Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.

April 15th, 1927

Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in at least 145 places, resulting in the worst flooding in the history of the United States.

April 15th, 1922

U.S. senator John B. Kendrick (pictured) introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal involving U.S. president Warren G. Harding's administration, leading to the Teapot Dome scandal.

April 15th, 1912

More than 1,500 people on the Titanic died when the passenger liner sank after colliding with an iceberg southeast of Newfoundland.

April 15th, 1861

The Italian tricolour is adopted as national flag by the newly formed Kingdom of Italy.

April 15th, 1802

English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy encountered a "long belt" of daffodils while walking around Ullswater in the Lake District, inspiring him to pen his best-known work, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

April 15th, 1738

Serse, an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.

April 15th, 1632

Thirty Years' War: A Swedish–German army defeated the forces of the Catholic League at the Battle of Rain, mortally wounding their commander Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 15th

Born on April 15th, 1960

64

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

64

Susanne Bier

Danish film director

*April 15th, 1960, Copenhagen

64

Pedro Delgado

Spanish racing cyclist

*April 15th, 1960, Segovia

64

Matthias Machnig

German politician

*April 15th, 1960, Wimbern

64

Mikhail Korniyenko

Russian cosmonaut

*April 15th, 1960, Syzran

64

Gustave F. Perna

U.S. military officer

*April 15th, 1960, New Jersey

64

Gilles Bourdouleix

French politician

*April 15th, 1960, Angers

64

Pierre Aubry

Canadian ice hockey player

*April 15th, 1960, Cap-de-la-Madeleine

64

Tony Jones

English snooker player

*April 15th, 1960, England

64

Suchitra Pillai

Actress, voice actress, singer, model, anchor, and veejay

*April 15th, 1960, Ernakulam

54

Collins Chabane

South African politician (1960-2015)

*April 15th, 1960, Limpopo †March 15th, 2015, South Africa

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Who's birthday is on April 15th?

34

Emma Watson

English actress and activist (born 1990)

*April 15th, 1990, Le Marais

65

Emma Thompson

British actress, comedian and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1959, Paddington

63

Carol Greider

American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate

*April 15th, 1961, San Diego

67

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

*April 15th, 1452, Anchiano †May 2nd, 1519, Amboise

44

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

75

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer and actress

*April 15th, 1949, Moscow

60

Jörg-Uwe Lütt

German handball player

*April 15th, 1964, Kiel

59

Nick Kamen

British singer, model and musician (1962–2021)

*April 15th, 1962, Harlow †May 4th, 2021, Notting Hill

27

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

83

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

*April 15th, 1931, Stockholm †March 26th, 2015, Stockholm

85

Marty Wilde

British rock and roll singer (born 1939)

*April 15th, 1939, Blackheath

48

Steve Williams

English rower

*April 15th, 1976, Royal Leamington Spa

51

Olivier Nakache

French film director, actor and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1973, Suresnes

61

Beata Szydło

Polish politician, former Prime Minister of Poland, member of European Parliament

*April 15th, 1963, Oświęcim

64

Donald Harvey

American serial killer (1952–2017)

*April 15th, 1952, Butler County †March 30th, 2017, Toledo

83

David Hamilton

British photographer and film director

*April 15th, 1933, London †November 25th, 2016, 6th arrondissement of Paris

33

Javier Fernández

Spanish figure skater

*April 15th, 1991, Madrid

62

Elizabeth Montgomery

American actress (1933-1995)

*April 15th, 1933, Hollywood †May 18th, 1995, Beverly Hills

41

Joachim Son-Forget

French radiologist and politician

*April 15th, 1983, Seoul

63

Ewald Schurer

German politician (1954-2017)

*April 15th, 1954, Ebersberg †December 2nd, 2017, Ebersberg

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Born in 1960

63

Vince Clarke

English synth-pop musician and songwriter

*July 3rd, 1960, South Woodford tube station

63

Sydney Youngblood

American/German singer

*December 2nd, 1960, San Antonio

63

Åse Michaelsen

Norwegian politician

*June 4th, 1960, Mandal Municipality

63

Sally Yates

American lawyer, 36th United States Deputy Attorney General

*August 20th, 1960, Atlanta

64

Naruhito

Emperor of Japan since 2019

*February 23rd, 1960, Hospital of the Imperial Household

64

Lene Kaaberbøl

Danish writer

*March 24th, 1960, Copenhagen

63

David Duchovny

American actor and writer

*August 7th, 1960, New York City

64

Pierre Littbarski

German association football player and manager

*April 16th, 1960, West Berlin

32

Jón Páll Sigmarsson

Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder

*April 28th, 1960, Hafnarfjörður †January 16th, 1993, Reykjavík

60

Diego Maradona

Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)

*October 30th, 1960, Lanús †November 25th, 2020, Dique Luján

64

Armin Reutershahn

German association football manager

*March 1st, 1960, Duisburg

63

Christopher Barker

Swiss actor

*May 2nd, 1960, Rome

63

Friederike Seyfried

German archaeologist and egyptologist

*November 19th, 1960, Mosbach

63

John Leguizamo

American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)

*July 22nd, 1960, Bogotá

63

Jane Lynch

American actress

*July 14th, 1960, Evergreen Park

63

Susanne Zimmer

Danish politician

*June 9th, 1960, Brønderslev

63

Colin Firth

English actor and producer

*September 10th, 1960, Grayshott

64

Ivanna Lie

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1960, Bandung City

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

64

Misbun Sidek

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1960, Banting

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Leap year

Yes: 1960 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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