This day in history (April 15)

[Impossibles]

On April 15
1813 U.S. troops under James Wilkinson attacked the Spanish-held city of Mobile which would be in the future state of Alabama.

1817 The first American school for the deaf was opened in Hartford, Connecticut.

1850 The city of San Francisco was incorporated.

1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.

1880 William Gladstone became Prime Minister of England.

1912 The ocean liner Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. More than 700 people survived.

1917 The British defeated the Germans at the battle of Arras.

1919 British troops killed 400 Indians at Amritsar, India.

1945 During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

1952 U.S. President Harry Truman signed the official Japanese peace treaty.

1955 Ray Kroc started the McDonald's restaurant chain.

1986 U.S. F-111 warplanes attacked Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5, 1986.

1987 In Northhampton, MA, Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 others were acquitted on civil disobedience charges related to a CIA protest.

1989 Students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. The protests led to the Tiananmen Square massacre.

1998 Pol Pot died at the age of 73. The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime thereby evaded prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians.

1999 In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a panel of two Lahore High Court judges convicted former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, of corruption.

1999 In Algeria, former Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika was elected president. All of the opposition candidates claimed that the vote was fraudulent and withdrew from the election.

2000 600 anti-IMF (International Monetary Fund) protesters were arrested in Washington, DC, for demonstrating without a permit.

(Would you guys/girls like to do something like this every day? It could become a bit of a contest, to see who posts it first each day. I can provide a link to where I got this info from, and you just cut and paste from there)

[DiamondDave]

Ahhh...

The dreaded ides of April...

[777rak]

lol its also McDonalds 50th anniversary

thankx for the info though

and btw yea this is a good idea

[Impossibles]

Ahhh...

The dreaded ides of April...

Beware the ides of april! (it always rains)

[RockSports17]

Did not today was the day Titanic sank. Just never keep track of that type of thing anymore.