April 15th

The April 15th is the 105e Jour of the Année (106e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1 to 1900

1450 : Battle of Formigny.
1589 : Martin Ruzé de Beaulieu installs in the name of Henri III Philippe Duplessis-Mornay in the load of governor of Saumur.
1602 : Juan of mow Cabezas Altamirano becomes bishop of Santiago of Cuba.
1702 : Vincent-François of Maretz is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its death in 1739.
1772 : The news Mosque of Mehmet II the Conqueror ( Sultan Fatih Mehmet Külliyesi ), with Istanbul (Turkey), rebuilt 1766 with 1771 at the request of the sultan Mustafa III (1757 - 1774), by the architect Mehmet Tahir Aga, after the destruction of that built at the 15th century by Atik Sinan at the time of an earthquake (1766), is opened with the prayer.
1798 : Geneva loses its independence.
1847 : Battle of Tourane, 2 warships French sends by the bottom the fleet of the kingdom of the Vietnam
1877: First flight of Helicopter of the Italian engineer Enrico Forlanini.

20th century

1912 : Shipwreck of the Titanic.
1940 : Beginning of the unloading of the task force British (13 000 men) in Norway, with Namsos and Andalsnes, in the North and the South of Trondheim.
1952 :

In Bolivia, coup d'etat of Víctor Paz Estenssoro.
First flight of the bomber Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, with the the United States.

1955 : Opening of the first restaurant McDonald's with Of the Plains (Illinois).
1983 : Opening of the complex Tokyo Disney Arises and of the park Tokyo Disneyland with the Japan.
1989 : 95 people perish crushed or choked against the grids of the stage Hillsborough with Sheffield (the United Kingdom) at the time of the semi-final of the Coupe of England of football opposing the teams of Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
1993 : The Limoges CSP becomes the first French club of collective sport to gain the championship from Europe, in Athens, vis-a-vis Trévisans.
1994 : Signature of the agreements of Marrakech.
1999 : Abdelaziz Bouteflika becomes the 7th president of the independent Algérie.

21e century

2001 : With Madrid, (Spain), plaza of Mow Were windy, alternate of Rafael Rodríguez Escribano known as “Rafael de Julia”, Spanish Matador.
2004 : The Olympic Lyonese gains a third championship of France of L1, in spite of his defeat with the Park of the Princes vis-a-vis Paris SG 1 drank to 0 (goal of Pauleta with 6th).
2005 : Funeral of the prince Rainier III of Monaco, dead the April 6th 2005.

Births

1452 : Léonard de Vinci, painter, Architect, Sculptor, Engineer and Italian Theorist († May 2nd 1519)
1684: Catherine Ire of Russia († 1727)
1707: Leonhard Euler, mathematician and Swiss physicist. († September 18th 1783)
1772: Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Naturalist French, († 1844).
1786 : Franklin, sailor and exploring John British. († June 11th 1847)
1786: Walerian Łukasiński, officer and activist Polish († January 27th 1868)
1793: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, germano-Baltic astronomer. († November 23rd 1864)
1797: Adolphe Thiers, historian and politician French. († September 3rd 1877)
1800: James Clark Ross, exploring British († 1862)
1812: Theodore Rousseau, painter French, († 1867)
1831: Eugene Dustbin, Parisian prefect († 1907)
1832: Wilhelm Busch, German Draftsman († 1908)
1843: Henry James, American writer († 1916)
1858: Emile Durkheim, Sociologist French († 1917)
1874: Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize of physics in 1919, († June 21st 1957)
1894: Bessie Smith, American Singer, it was called the '' Impératrice of the Blues ''. († September 26th 1937)
1895: Corrado Alvaro, writer, Journalist and Poet Italy N. († June 11th 1956).
1900 : Wilhelm Wagenfeld, German designer († May 28th, 1990).
1901 : Rene Pleven, French politician († 1993)
1902: Chicuelo (Manual Jiménez Moreno), Spanish Matador († October 31st 1967).
1906 : Denis Marion, French-speaking Belgian writer (death in 2000)
1907: Jean Fourastié, French economist, at the origin of the expression the glorious Thirty . († July 25th 1990)
1912: Kim It-sung, president of the democratic Popular republic of Korea († 1994)
1930: Georges Descrières, French actor.
1930 : Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, president of the Republic of Iceland of 1980 with 1996
1933:

Elizabeth Montgomery, American Actress. († May 18th 1995)
David Hamilton, British Photographer .

1936 : Raymond Poulidor, Cyclist French
1939: Claudia Cardinale, Italian Actress
1947: Woolly Wolstenholme, British musician, founder of the group BJH
1949: Alain Minc, Sociologist French
1950: Josiane Balasko, pseudonym of Josiane Balaskovic, Actress and French Director
1950: Jango Edwards, American actor installed in Europe.
1951

Marsha S. Ivins, American astronaut
John L. Philips, American astronaut

1956: Gregory J. Harbaugh, American astronaut
1957: Evelyn Ashford, former American athlete, specialist in the sprint.
1959 : Emma Thompson, Actress and British Scenario writer
1962: Nawal El Moutawakil, Moroccan Athlete
1965: Soichi Noguchi, Japanese spationaut
1966: Samantha Fox, English singer.
1968 : ED O' Brien, British Guitarist of the group Radiohead.
1983 : Gwénaël Gilbert, player of Canadian tennis shoe
1985: Amy Reid, American actress
1990: Emma Watson, British Actress

Death

1205 : Louis de Champagne, count de Blois and of Clermont, at the time of the Battle of Turkey-red cotton
1446: Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (° 1377)
1641: Domenico Zampieri says Dominiquin, painter Italian baroque (° October 21st 1581)
1659: Simon Dach, Prussian poet (° 1605)
1704: Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (° April 23rd 1628)
1719: Madam de Maintenon ( Francoise d' Aubigné ), second woman of Louis XIV (° November 27th 1635)
1754: Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (° May 28th 1676)
1764: Madam de Pompadour ( Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson ), mistress of Louis XV (° December 29th 1721)
1765: Mikhaïl Lomonossov, historian and Russian Polymathe (° November 19th 1711)
1804: Jean-Charles Pichegru, general French revolutionist (° February 16th 1761)
1843: Noah Webster, lexicographer states-unien (° October 16th 1758)
1862: Frederick William Hope, British zoologist (° January 3rd 1797)
1865: Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (° February 12th 1809)
1888: Matthew Arnold, British poet (° December 23rd 1822)

1889: Father Damien ( Joseph De Veuster ), Belgian missionary (° January 3rd 1840)
1912:

Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic, with 1512 other victims (° January 27th 1850)
John Jacob Astor IV, personality states-unienne, died on board the Titanic (° July 13rd 1864)
Benjamin Guggenheim, personality states-unienne of the business world, died on board the Titanic (° October 26th 1865)
Thomas Andrews, manufacturer of the Titanic (° February 7th 1873)

1927: Gaston Leroux, French writer (° May 6th 1868)
1938: César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (° March 16th 1892)
1942

Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (° November 6th 1880)
Georges Desdevises of Dézert, French writer

1969: Victoire Eugenie de Battenberg, queen of Spain (° October 24th 1887)
1967: Totò ( Antonio de Curtis Gagliardi Ducas Comneno di Bisanzio ), actor and Italian singer (° February 15th 1898)
1975: Richard Tells, actor states-unien (° March 24th 1910)
1980: Jean-Paul Sartre, writer and philosopher French, Nobel Prize of literature 1964 (refused) (° June 21st 1905)
1986: Jean Genet, French playwright (° December 19th 1910)
1989: Charles Vanel, actor and realizer French. (° August 21st 1892)
1989: Hu Yaobang, general secretary of the Chinese Communist party (° November 20th 1915)
1990: Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (° September 18th 1905)
1998: Pol Pot ( Saloth Sar ), dictator of the Kampuchea (° May 19th 1928)
2000: Edward Gorey, illustrator states-unien (° February 22nd 1925)
2001: Joey Cleans ( Jeffrey Hyman ), singer of the group Punk Ramones (° May 19th 1951)
2002: Damon Knight, writer states-unien of science fiction (° September 19th 1922)

Celebrations

First names

Padern, Padernez, Pederna, Pedernig (Breton first names)

Catholic and orthodoxe saint of the day

Ortaire de Landelles († 580), abbot in Normandy.
Benevolent of Valves († towards 555), bishop.

Catholic saint of the day

Pierre Gonzalez de Tuy says S. Elne († towards 1246), owner of the marines.
Holy César de Bus, priest in Avignon (+ 1607)

Orthodoxe saint of the day

Mstislav Theodore of Kiev († 1132), prince.

See too

April 15th in sport
April 15th in the railroads

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