Friday, September 16, 2005

APRIL 15

April 15 is my birthday. But I wanted to know what events happened on that day and who was borned on that day? This is what I found in Wikipedia:

Events
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.
1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1783 - Preliminary articles of peace ending Revolutionary War ratified.
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy come across a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 - Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
1892 - The General Electric Company is formed through the merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company.
1912 - The passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks at about 2:20 am after hitting an iceberg almost three hours earlier.
1915 - The Armenian Genocide began when the Ottoman Empire undertook the systematic annihilation of Armenian intellectuals and entrepreneurs within the city of Constantinople and later the entire Armenian population of the Empire.
1920 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
1923 - Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1927 - Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Norma and Constance Talmadge become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1940 - The Allies start their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which was occupied by Nazi Germany.
1942 - George Cross awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta - its people and defenders" by King George VI.
1945 - The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.
1955 - The first McDonald's restaurant opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens.
1985 - Marvin Hagler defeats Thomas Hearns by a knockout in round three to retain boxing's world Middleweight championship in a fight nicknamed The War.
1989 - Hillsborough disaster: A human stampede occurs at Hillsborough, a football stadium in Sheffield, England, resulting in the loss of 96 lives.
1989 - Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
1994 - Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and setting up the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
1997 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.
2001 - Easter day (not again until 2063).
2002 - An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into hillside during heavy rain and fog near Pusan, South Korea killing 128

Births
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist (d. 1519)
1489 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)
1552 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
1580 - George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician and colonizer
1588 - Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (d. 1653)
1641 - Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and antiquarian (d. 1722)
1642 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1646 - King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)
1800 - James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862)
1832 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet, graphic artist, and painter (d. 1908)
1843 - Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
1858 - Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)
1861 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
1874 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
1878 - Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956)
1879 - Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (d. 1980)
1883 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)
1889 - A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)
1894 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
1895 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (d. 1980)
1901 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
1902 - Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1912 - Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
1916 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1917 - Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
1920 - Richard von Weizäcker, President of Germany
1921 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut (d. 1995)
1922 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor
1922 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1987)
1924 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist
1927 - Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1930 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
1933 - Roy Clark, American musician
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
1933 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian author
1938 - Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
1940 - Jeffrey Archer, British author and Member of Parliament
1940 - Robert Walker Jr., American actor
1942 - Walt Hazzard, American basketball star
1942 - Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
1944 - Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician
1944 - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (d. 1996)
1947 - Lois Chiles, American actress
1948 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
1950 - Amy Wright, American actress
1951 - Heloise, American newspaper columnist
1954 - Seka, American actress
1955 - Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1957 - Evelyn Ashford, American athlete
1958 - Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer and musician
1959 - Emma Thompson, English actress
1959 - Thomas F. Wilson, American actor
1960 - Tony Jones, English snooker player
1962 - Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler
1965 - Linda Perry, American musician
1966 - Samantha Fox, English singer and model
1967 - Dara Torres, American swimmer
1967 - Frankie Poullain, British bassist (former The Darkness)
1968 - Stacey Williams, American model
1968 - Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead)
1970 - Flex Alexander, American actor
1972 - Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer
1974 - Josh Todd, musician and singer (Buckcherry)
1974 - Jacob Froberg, Singer, musician, producer, songwriter
1977 - Chandra Levy, American Congressional intern (d. 2001)
1982 - Adel Anwar, Indian web developer
1983 - Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian hockey player
1990 - Emma Watson, English actress

Surprisingly I am sharing my birthday with Emma Watson

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_April