Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 15
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 might 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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled April 15, 2012 featured article or the April 15, 2012 featured picture.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
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Samuel Johnson
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The Titanic's sinking as depicted by artist Willy Stöwer
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Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds 2 cropped.jpg
Samuel Johnson (requires undeletion)
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Samuel Johnson
Ineligible
| Blurb | Why ineligible |
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| 1715 – The Yamasee War between colonial South Carolina and various Native American Indian tribes began. | refimprove |
| 1941 – Second World War: Two hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attacked Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing about 1,000 people and rendering roughly 100,000 others homeless. | needs more footnotes |
| 1986 – U.S. armed forces began bombing Libya to try to reduce that country's ability to support international terrorism. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – The death of former Chinese General Secretary Hu Yaobang triggered a series of events that led to the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1927 – Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in 145 places, causing the worst flooding in the history of the United States.
- 1936 – The Great Arab Revolt in the British Mandate for Palestine began when unknown assailants attacked a convoy of trucks and killed two of the Jewish drivers.
- 1952 – The B-52 Stratofortress, a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered, strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force for most of the aircraft's history, made its first flight.
- 1958 – Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Major League Baseball game played on the US West Coast.
- 1989 – Ninety-six people died in a deadly human crush during a FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, the deadliest stadium-related disaster in British history.
April 15: Father Damien Day in Hawaii; Birthday of the Great Leader in North Korea
- 1738 – Serse, an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel (pictured) loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.
- 1755 – A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson was first published, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.
- 1912 – The passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg, 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.
- 1955 – American restaurateur Ray Kroc opened the ninth McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, an occasion considered to be the founding of the present corporation.
- 1995 – At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities signed an agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
