Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London. Samuel Johnson’s *A Dictionary of the English Language*, first published in 1755, stands…
Tag: 15 April
15 April 1736
Foundation of the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica. The Kingdom of Corsica was a short-lived and rather quirky experiment in monarchy that existed briefly in 1736….
15 April 1945
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp located in Lower Saxony, Germany, near the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established…
15 April 1896
Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece The 1896 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the I Olympiad,…
15 April 1955
McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
15 April 1941
In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
15 April 1952
First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress’]
15 April 1924
Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. Before there were smart phones and Google Maps, people relied on road atlases and paper maps stored in…
15 April 1945
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. ergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of…
15 April 1964
The first Ford Mustang come out. Ford’s Mustang was conceived in full knowledge that in the mid-’60s the biggest population bubble in history was coming…