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15 April, 2002

An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.

15 April, 1997

Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.

15 April, 1994

Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).

15 April, 1992

The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

15 April, 1989

Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of football club Sheffield Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool FC fans.

15 April, 1989

Upon Hu Yaobangs death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the Peoples Republic of China.

15 April, 1986

The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya.

15 April, 1984

British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack while live on TV.

15 April, 1967

Scotland defeats rival England 3-2 at Wembley Stadium, causing the Scots fans to jokingly claim their side as "Unofficial world Champions", creating the phenomenon of the Unofficial Football World Championships.

15 April, 1957

White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.

15 April, 1955

Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonalds restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.

15 April, 1947

Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseballs color line.

15 April, 1945

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

15 April, 1943

An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.

15 April, 1942

George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta - its people and defenders" by King George VI.

15 April, 1941

In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland killing one thousand people.

15 April, 1940

The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.

15 April, 1924

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

15 April, 1923

Insulin becomes generally available for use by diabetics.

15 April, 1920

Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.

15 April, 1912

The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.

15 April, 1906

The Armenian organization AGBU is established.

15 April, 1892

The General Electric Company is formed.

15 April, 1865

Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.

15 April, 1802

William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

15 April, 1783

Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.

15 April, 1755

Samuel Johnsons A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.

15 April, 1738

Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

15 April, 1715

Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

15 April, 1632

Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.

15 April, 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.

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