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, 484,632 hours 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.
• 1865 –
  Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
• 1892 –
  The General Electric Company is formed.
• 1900 –
  Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
• 1924 –
  Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• 1952 –
  The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
• 1986 –
  The 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.
• 1989 –
  Hillsborough 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.
• 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).
• 2002 –
  An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.

Who were born on April 15?

• 1883 –
  Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
• 1892 –
  Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
• 1910 –
  Miguel Najdorf, Argentine chess grandmaster (d. 1997)
• 1944 –
  Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (d. 1996)
• 1949 –
  Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer
• 1958 –
  Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1959 –
  Thomas F. Wilson, American actor
• 1960 –
  Susanne Bier, Danish film director
• 1962 –
  Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
• 1977 –
  Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player

Who died on April 15?

• 1053 –
  Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)
• 1912 –
  Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster: Thomas Andrews, Irish-born businessman and shipbuilder (b. 1873)
• 1975 –
  Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1984 –
  Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
• 1989 –
  Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
• 1994 –
  John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949)
• 1999 –
  Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
• 2003 –
  Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
• 2004 –
  Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (b. 1934)
• 2008 –
  Krister Stendahl, Swedish theologian and bishop (b. 1921)