Events in History
- 69 Battle at Bedriacum, North-Italy
- 1205 Battle at Adrianople: Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople
- 1250 Kublai is acclaimed the Great Khan by a Mongol Great Council
- 1250 Pope Innocent IV refuses Jews of Cordova, Spain their request to build a synagogue
- 1385 At war with Castile, John I of Portugal instructs his ambassadors to negotiate an alliance with Richard II of England and to raise loans to pay his troops
- 1450 Battle of Formigny: French defeat the English decisively in the Hundred Years' War, paving the way for the capture of English strongholds in Normandy
- 1493 -20/4] Columbus meets with the Spanish monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II in Barcelona
- 1528 Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians
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Leonardo da Vinci
Guru Nanak
Leonhard Euler
Nikita Khrushchev
Kim Il-sung
Philippe of BelgiumWeddings in History
- 1595 William I of Orange's daughter Elisabeth of Nassau (17) weds Duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Bouillion (39), becoming Duchess of Bouillon, until his death in 1623
- 1909 Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
- 1925 Russian writer ("Lolita") Vladimir Nabokov (26) marries fellow Russian writer Vera Evseevna Slonim (23) in Berlin
Divorces in History
- 1994 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
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Abraham Lincoln
Edward Smith
Manuel Roxas
Jean-Paul Sartre
Hu Yaobang
Pol PotApril in History
Iceberg Sinks 'Unsinkable' Titanic
The Titanic hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank on this day in history. She took with her to the bottom of the sea some of the world’s richest people.
April 15, 1912
Shrek the Sheep
Shrek the sheep, after escaping shearing for 6 years!
April 15, 2004
The Titanic Sinks
The wreck of the RMS Titanic at the bottom of the ocean, photographed in 2004
April 15, 1912
Notre Dame on Fire
Thirty minutes from collapse, the Notre Dame' towers and belfries were saved
April 15, 2019