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Samuel Johnson
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Hillsborough disaster memorial at Hillsborough Stadium
RMS Titanic on April 10, 1912
The Titanic's sinking, as depicted by Willy Stöwer
Hu Yaobang
YB-52
Aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing
Jackie Robinson
Notre-Dame de Paris, with its spire and roof aflame
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Father Damien Day in Hawaii; | refimprove section |
| 1715 – The Yamasee War between colonial South Carolina and various Native American Indian tribes began. | refimprove section |
| 1755 – A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson was first published, becoming one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of English. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – More than 1,500 people died after the passenger liner RMS Titanic sank as a result of colliding with an iceberg southeast of Newfoundland. | Frederick Fleet is POTD for 2021-04-14 |
| 1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which led to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. | refimprove section |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 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 |
| 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. | globalize, expansion |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| Carol W. Greider |b|1961 | POTD for 2021 |
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- 769 – The Lateran Council concluded proceedings intended to rectify abuses in the papal electoral process that had led to the elevation of the antipopes Constantine II and Philip.
- 1927 – Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in at least 145 places, resulting in the worst flooding in the history of the United States.
- 1947 – Jackie Robinson, the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.
- 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.
- 1989 – A human crush during an FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, caused 96 deaths, making it the worst disaster in British sporting history.
- 1994 – At a GATT ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives of 123 countries and the European Communities signed an agreement to establish the World Trade Organization.
- 2013 – Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off two pressure cooker bombs during the running of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
- 2019 – A fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the cathedral's timber spire and much of its roof.
- Born/died: | Richard Poore |d|1237| Leonardo da Vinci |b|1452| Guru Arjan |b|1563| Robert Persons |d|1610| Leonhard Euler |b|1707| Mikhail Lomonosov |d|1765| Wilhelm Busch |b|1832| Stanley Bruce |b|1883| Robert W. Gore |b|1937| Claudia Cardinale |b|1938| Hugh Thompson Jr. |b|1943| Emma Thompson |b|1959| Arsenio Lacson |d|1962| Milton Bradley |b|1978| Seth Rogen |b|1982| Greta Garbo |d|1990| Emma Watson |b|1990
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- Messiah (Handel) appears on April 13 so the Serse blurb should not appear in the same year.
- Noah Webster appears on April 14 so the Dictionary blurb should not appear in the same year.
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln appears on April 14, so Abraham Lincoln should not appear in the same year.
April 15: Independence Day in Israel (2021); Day of the Sun in North Korea
- 1638 – The Tokugawa shogunate put down a rebellion by Japanese Catholic peasants in Shimabara Domain over increased taxes, resulting in greater enforcement of the policy of national seclusion.
- 1738 – Serse (audio featured), an opera by Baroque composer George Frideric Handel loosely based on Xerxes I of Persia, premiered in London.
- 1936 – A group of Arabs in British Mandatory Palestine killed two Jews at a roadblock, an act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within the Arab revolt.
- 1958 – On Walter O'Malley's initiative, the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played the first Major League Baseball game on the U.S. West Coast.
- 2001 – India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
- George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (d. 1632)
- Richard von Weizsäcker (b. 1920)
- Dara Torres (b. 1967)