April 15th, 2025

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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.

April 15th, 1071

Byzantine–Norman wars: After a siege of almost three years, Italo-Norman forces conquered the city of Bari, the capital of the Catepanate of Italy, ending more than five centuries of Byzantine presence in the region.

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

Birthdays and future age on April 15th, 2025

35

Emma Watson

English actress and activist (born 1990)

*April 15th, 1990, Le Marais

45

Patrick Carney

American drummer

*April 15th, 1980, Akron

28

Maisie Williams

British actress

*April 15th, 1997, Bristol

76

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer and actress

*April 15th, 1949, Moscow

34

Javier Fernández

Spanish figure skater

*April 15th, 1991, Madrid

65

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

*April 15th, 1960, Belvédère Castle

86

Marty Wilde

British rock and roll singer (born 1939)

*April 15th, 1939, Blackheath

66

Emma Thompson

British actress, comedian and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1959, Paddington

42

Joachim Son-Forget

French radiologist and politician

*April 15th, 1983, Seoul

49

Steve Williams

English rower

*April 15th, 1976, Royal Leamington Spa

87

Claudia Cardinale

French-Italian actress

*April 15th, 1938, Tunis

33

John Guidetti

Swedish association football player

*April 15th, 1992, Västerled

64

Carol Greider

American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate

*April 15th, 1961, San Diego

61

Jörg-Uwe Lütt

German handball player

*April 15th, 1964, Kiel

52

Olivier Nakache

French film director, actor and screenwriter

*April 15th, 1973, Suresnes

42

Martin Pedersen

Danish road bicycle racer, born 1983

*April 15th, 1983, Brøndby Municipality

77

Werner Otto

East German racing cyclist

*April 15th, 1948, Dresden

45

Fränk Schleck

Luxembourgish cyclist

*April 15th, 1980, Luxembourg

37

Chris Stuckmann

American film critic

*April 15th, 1988, Ohio

82

Robert Lefkowitz

American physician and biochemist

*April 15th, 1943, The Bronx

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