On This Day:
Wednesday April 15, 2015 This is the 105th day of the year, with 260 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: baseball song Take Me Out To The Ball Game was written by Jack Norworth (lyrics) and Albert von Tilzer (music) in 1908 and copyrighted then. Neither gentleman had seen a ballgame before writing this song.
Holidays Feast day of St. Ruadhan, St. Paternus of Wales, St. Hunna, and Saints Anastasia and Basilissa.
United States: Federal income tax returns due to the Internal Revenue Service.
Events 1755 - English lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson published his "Dictionary of the English Language."
1783 - The Continental Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace ending the Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
1817 - The first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Connecticut.
1850 - The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
1861 - Three days after the attack on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln mobilized Federal army at the outset of the Civil War.
1865 - Andrew Johnson became the nation's 17th president upon Abraham Lincoln's death.
1922 - Insulin was discovered by Canadian physiologist Frederick Banting and John Macleod.
1945 - During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
1955 - Ray Kroc opened the first franchised McDonald's; it was located in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1989 - Students in Beijing launched a series of pro-democracy protests following the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang; the protests culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre.
1989 - Ninety-six people died in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.
1999 - Astronomers from San Francisco State University, working in Arizona, announced the discovery of the first multi-planet system found orbiting around a star other than the Sun.
2003 - U.S. President George W. Bush declared that the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq has fallen; the following day he called on the United Nations to lift sanctions against Iraq that had been in place since 1991.
Births 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist, engineer, draftsman.
1843 - Henry James, American-born British author and critic.
1880 - Max Wertheimer, Czech-born American psychologist, founder of Gestalt psychology.
1922 - Neville Mariner, American conductor.
Deaths 2002 - Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White.
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