What are the important events that happened on April 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 15: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 15 is the 105^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 2, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,744,675,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 308 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,498 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 15 Historical Events

• 1802 –
  William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
• 1892 –
  The General Electric Company is formed.
• 1912 –
  The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed.
• 1927 –
  The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
• 1940 –
  The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1952 –
  The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
• 1955 –
  McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
• 1958 –
  Walter O'Malley’s Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
• 1992 –
  The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
• 1994 –
  Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).

Who were born on April 15?

• 1469 –
  Guru Nanak Dev, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus (d. 1539)
• 1858 –
  Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)
• 1894 –
  Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
• 1958 –
  Dolores Gordon-Smith, British writer
• 1959 –
  Emma Thompson, English actress
• 1962 –
  Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
• 1974 –
  Danny Pino, American actor
• 1978 –
  Milton Bradley, American baseball player
• 1983 –
  Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
• 1985 –
  John Danks, American baseball player

Who died on April 15?

• 1719 –
  Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
• 1761 –
  Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
• 1765 –
  Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711)
• 1788 –
  Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
• 1804 –
  Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
• 1861 –
  Sylvester Jordan, German politician and lawyer (b. 1792)
• 1912 –
  Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster: John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
• 1942 –
  Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880)
• 1989 –
  Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
• 1990 –
  Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)