Quick glance of 15 April in the pages of History

April 15: Here are the major events that occurred on 15 April….

• 15 April, 1493: Colombus meets with the Spanish monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II in Barcelona.
• 15 April, 1658: Sikh Raja Jaswant Singh was defeated at Dharmat. He was sent by Shahjahan and Dara Shukoh to resist Aurangzeb’s advance towards Agra.
• 15 April, 1802: William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”.

• 15 April, 1865: Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.
• 15 April, 1892:  General Electric Company formed by merger of Thomas Edison’s General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric Company, arranged by J. P. Morgan and incorporated in New York.
• 15 April, 1895: Bal Gangadhar Tilak inagurated the Shivaji Mahotsav at Raigad Fort.
• 15 April, 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.

• 15 April, 1923: Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
• 15 April, 1946: The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal – Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.

• 15 April, 1948: Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh was created by the merger of some 30 small ruling states.
• 15 April, 1950: Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his ‘Bhudan Andolan’.
• 15 April, 1959: Cuban Revolutionary and President Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour.
• 15 April, 1963: Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler), was born in Ghaziabad.

• 15 April, 1996: Shyam Benegal’s film “The Making of a Mahatma” released in South Africa.
• 15 April, 2000: Baichung Bhutia became the first Asian-player to score a goal in the professional English game.
•  15 April, 2002: An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.