April 15

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[edit] Events

• 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
• 1912 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.

[edit] Births

• 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
• 1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
• 1873 - Antonín Švehla, Czech politician (d. 1933)
• 1889 - A. Philip Randolph, Civil Right agitator (d. 1979)
• 1892 - Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)

[edit] Deaths

• 1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
• 1945 - Hermann Florstedt, NSDAP Official (b. 1895)
• 1976 - Gerald L.K. Smith, minister and WWII isolationist (b. 1898)