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

• 1632 –
  Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War.
• 1817 –
  Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1896 –
  Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
• 1940 –
  The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
• 1941 –
  In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
• 1942 –
  The George Cross is awarded to “to the island fortress of Malta – its people and defenders” by King George VI.
• 1955 –
  McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
• 1979 –
  A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.
• 1992 –
  The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
• 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?

• 1741 –
  Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
• 1800 –
  James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862)
• 1930 –
  Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
• 1939 –
  Marty Wilde, British singer
• 1941 –
  Howard Berman, American politician
• 1971 –
  Katy Hill, British television presenter
• 1975 –
  Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
• 1984 –
  Ben Kasica, guitarist (Skillet)
• 1985 –
  Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
• 1988 –
  Thomas Albanese, Italian footballer

Who died on April 15?

• 1053 –
  Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)
• 1764 –
  Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (b. 1679)
• 1854 –
  Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
• 1888 –
  Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
• 1912 –
  Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster: Wallace Hartley,English Violinist (b. 1878)
• 1971 –
  Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1975 –
  Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1980 –
  Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
• 1982 –
  Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
• 1983 –
  Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)