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 106^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 2, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,713,139,200 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 ‘hectahexagon’ 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 289 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 4,133 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 15 Historical Events

• 1783 –
  Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
• 1817 –
  Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
• 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.
• 1923 –
  Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
• 1935 –
  Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
• 1942 –
  The George Cross is awarded to “to the island fortress of Malta – its people and defenders” by King George VI.
• 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.
• 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?

• 1688 –
  Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
• 1772 –
  Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
• 1885 –
  Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
• 1892 –
  Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
• 1927 –
  Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
• 1938 –
  Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician
• 1959 –
  Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
• 1960 –
  Tony Jones, English snooker player
• 1980 –
  Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish professional cyclist
• 1984 –
  Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player

Who died on April 15?

• 1719 –
  Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
• 1754 –
  Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
• 1761 –
  Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
• 1761 –
  William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
• 1793 –
  Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
• 1898 –
  Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
• 1948 –
  Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (b. 1892)
• 1949 –
  Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
• 1963 –
  Edward “Carji” Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
• 2009 –
  Ed Blake, American baseball player (b. 1925)