On This Day for April 15 - Sinking of the Titanic, Leonardo da Vinci is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-15 10:03 Updated: 2020-04-15 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 15

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Leonardo da Vinci

FEATURED EVENT

1912

Sinking of the Titanic

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2019: The historic Notre-Dame de Paris caught fire during a restoration campaign, and the blaze destroyed most of the cathedral's roof, the 19th-century spire, and some of the rib vaulting. [ Test your knowledge of Paris.]

2013: Near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, two homemade bombs were detonated in the crowd of spectators; 3 people were killed and more than 260 were wounded in the terrorist attack.

2003: U.S. President George W. Bush declared that the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq had fallen as a result of the Iraq War and the following day asked the United Nations to lift sanctions against Iraq. [ Sort fact from fiction in our wars throughout history quiz.]

2000: U.S. President Bill Clinton established the Giant Sequoia National Monument, a preserve near Sequoia National Park covering more than 500 square miles (1,300 square km) of Sequoia National Forest in the Sierra Nevada of California.

1989: Tragedy occurred at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, when a crush of football (soccer) fans resulted in 96 deaths and hundreds of injuries; police mistakes were later blamed for the incident.