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==Events== * 769 – The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings. *1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard. *1395 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania. *1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France. *1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. *1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army. *1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. *1738 – ''Serse'', an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England. *1755 – Samuel Johnson's ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' is published in London. *1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified. *1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen ''I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud''. *1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut. *1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War *1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln's death. *1892 – The General Electric Company is formed. *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. *1907 – Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign *1912 – The British passenger liner sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive. *1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy. *1921 – Black Friday: Mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England. *1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. *1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. *1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. *1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins. *1935 – Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C. *1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine. * 1936 – Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland. *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 Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people. *1942 – The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI. *1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. *1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. *1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress *1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois *1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. *1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide. *1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. *1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam. *1983 – Tokyo Disneyland opens to the public. *1984 – The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City. *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 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans. * 1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China. *2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others. *2014 – More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「April 15」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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