April 15

This page lists news articles and events for April 15.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

Months:	March		April			May
Days:	April 12	April 13	April 14	April 15	April 16	April 17	April 18

Recurring Events

• Peak of Gamma Virginids meteor shower ends.

One-time Events/News

• 1862:
  • Event: Battle of Picacho Pass
• 1865:
  • Event: Death of Abraham Lincoln, after being fatally wounded the night before.
• 1912
  • Event: The HMS Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks
• 1919:
  • Event: Citizens of Limerick (Ireland) went on general strike, declaring the city and its surroundings a new state, Limerick Soviet.
• 2010:
  • News: Laptops took thousands of images
• 2011:
  • News: Scientists Make Teleportation Breakthrough