CoM Moderators Posted April 15 Posted April 15 1621 - Hugo Grotius arrives in France after escaping prison in a book chest 1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford, Connecticut) 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after he is shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington 1896 - I (modern) Summer Olympic Games close at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece; USA wins gold medal count, 11; Greece wins total medal count, 46; IOC has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to 3 best placed athletes in each event 1912 - RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people 1920 - Sacco and Vanzetti Trial: paymaster shot and killed along with his guard 1924 - WHO-AM in Des Moines Iowa begins radio transmissions 1963 - 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurèle Vandendriessche of Belgium in race record 2:18:58 1997 - Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams 2020 - US's deadliest day during COVID-19 pandemic with 2,752 deaths reported More Historical Events »
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