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 105th 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, 29,077,920 minutes 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.
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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.
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April 15 Historical Events
- 1071 –Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
- 1632 –Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1896 –Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- 1900 –Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
- 1941 –In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
- 1943 –An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
- 1957 –White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
- 1958 –Walter O'Malley’s Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
- 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 –Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People’s Republic of China.
Who were born on April 15?
- 1646 –King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
- 1710 –William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
- 1879 –Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
- 1908 –Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1910 –Miguel Najdorf, Argentine chess grandmaster (d. 1997)
- 1916 –Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
- 1950 –Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter
- 1954 –Seka, American pornographic actress
- 1983 –Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
- 1983 –Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
Who died on April 15?
- 1053 –Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)
- 1889 –Father Damien, Flemish missionary (b. 1840)
- 1912 –Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster: William T. Stead English author and journalist (b. 1849)
- 1963 –Edward “Carji” Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
- 1980 –Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
- 1993 –John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
- 1994 –John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949)
- 2004 –Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (b. 1934)
- 2005 –John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
- 2010 –Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939)
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