April 15<\/p>\n
1715 \u2013 The massacre of a colonial delegation to the Yamasee tribe at their main village of Pocotaligo, triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.<\/p>\n
1817 \u2013 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 After the fall of Fort Sumter, President Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to quell hostilities in South Carolina that soon become war between the state.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 President Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.<\/p>\n
1892 \u2013 The General Electric Company is formed in Schenectady, New York.<\/p>\n
1896 \u2013 The Games of the first modern Olympiad in Athens, Greece end.<\/p>\n
1900 \u2013 Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a siege of Catubig, Philippines during the Philippine-American War<\/p>\n
1912 \u2013 RMS Titanic<\/em> sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., 2 hours and 40 minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.<\/p>\n 1920 \u2013 During a robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Massachusetts, 2 security guards are murdered. A few weeks later, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested and charged with the crimes.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal made a week earlier, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 Jackie Robinson starts as a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the New York Yankees in an pre-season game at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n 1952 \u2013 The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress flies for the first time.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 A North Korean MiG-21 shoots down a U.S\u00a0 Navy Lockheed EC-121M Warning Star, call sign Deep Sea 129<\/em>, of squadron VQ-1, Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One, over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 crew on board.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 The U.S.\u00a0 launches Operation El Dorado Canyon<\/em>, a series of bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed 3 U.S. servicemen.<\/p>\n 2013 \u2013 Near the finish line at the Boston Marathon, 2 pressure cooker improvised bombs explode, killing 3 people and injuring 264 others.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 The cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris is seriously damaged by a large fire.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 A former employee, fired the previous October, returns to a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, then shoots and kills 9 people,\u00a0 wounding 7 more, before committing suicide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 15 1715 \u2013 The massacre of a colonial delegation to the Yamasee tribe at their main village of Pocotaligo, triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. 1817 \u2013 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66841"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91882,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841\/revisions\/91882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}