History for April 15

History for April 15 - On-This-Day.com:
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - Artist ("Mona Lisa," "The Last Supper"), Henry James 1843 - Author ("The Turn of the Screw," "The Portrait of a Lady"), Nikita Khrushchev 1894 - U.S.S.R. premier


Michael Ansara 1922, Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery 1933 - Actress ("Bewitched"), Emma Watson 1990 - Actress ("Harry Potter" movie series)

1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.


1871 - "Wild Bill" Hickok became the marshal of Abilene, Kansas.


1880 - William Gladstone became Prime Minister of England.


1912 - The ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived.


1945 - During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.


1948 - The Arabs were defeated in the first Jewish-Arab battle.


1952 - The first B-52 prototype was tested in the air.


1986 - U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.