Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 15
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This is a list of selected April 15 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.April 15: Tax Day in the United States; Father Damien Day in Hawaii; Birthday of the Great Leader in North Korea
- 1755 – A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson was first published.
- 1912 – The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg (pictured), killing over 1,500 people.
- 1947 – Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.
- 1986 – U.S. armed forces launched Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.
- 1989 – The death of former Chinese General Secretary Hu Yaobang triggered a series of events that led to the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.
