Aug 16, 2008 23:35
Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
April 15th
Events:
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.
1892 - The General Electric Company is formed.
1912 - The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.
1952 - The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
Births:
1452 - Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath
1967 - Dara Torres, American swimmer
1982 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
Deaths:
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
Holiday:
Roman Empire-the Fordicia was celebrated in honor of Terra.