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On This Day: April 15

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On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died.
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On April 15, 1889, A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights leader and trade unionist, was born. Following his death on May 16, 1979, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1808	A law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States went into effect.
1892	The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened.
1898	New York City was consolidated into five buroughs.
1901	The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed.
1919	J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye," was born in New York City.
1953	Country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, died of a drug and alcohol overdose.
1958	Treaties establishing the European Economic Community went into effect.
1959	Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.
1979	The United States and China established diplomatic relations.
1984	AT&T was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
1990	David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first African-American mayor.
1993	Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1994	The North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect.
1999	The euro became the official currency of 11 European countries.

Current Birthdays

Actor Frank Langella ("Frost/Nixon") turns 73 years old today.

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Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., turns 57 years old today.

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1922	Ernest Hollings, Former U.S. senator, D-S.C., turns 89
1942	Country Joe McDonald, Rock singer, musician (Country Joe and the Fish), turns 69
1943	Don Novello, Comedian, turns 68
1947	Jon Corzine, Former governor of New Jersey, turns 64
1958	Grandmaster Flash, Rapper, turns 53
1964	Dedee Pfeiffer, Actress, turns 47
1966	Embeth Davidtz, Actress, turns 45
1969	Verne Troyer, Actor ("Austin Powers" movies), turns 42

Historic Birthdays

A. Philip Randolph4/15/1889 - 5/16/1979American civil rights leader and trade unionist.Go to obituary »

76	Leonhard Euler 4/15/1707 - 9/18/1783 Swiss mathematician and physicist
86	Charles Willson Peale 4/15/1741 - 2/22/1827 American portrait painter of leading American Revolution figures
90	Walter Channing 4/15/1786 - 7/27/1876 American physician; helped found Boston Lying-In Hospital (1832)
73	Henry James 4/15/1843 - 2/28/1916 American-English novelist
83	Johannes Stark 4/15/1874 - 6/21/1957 German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1919)
67	Leonardo da Vinci 4/15/1452 - 5/2/1519 Italian artist, architect, scientist, inventor and engineer
63	Max Wertheimer 4/15/1880 - 10/12/1943 Czech-born American psychologist; founder of Gestalt psychology
84	Stanley Bruce 4/15/1883 - 8/25/1967 Australian statesman and diplomat; prime minister (1923-29)
86	Thomas Hart Benton 4/15/1889 - 1/19/1975 American painter associated with the American Regionalists of the 1930's
44	Arshile Gorky 4/15/1904 - 7/21/1948 Turkish-born American postsurrealist abstract painter
81	Nikolaas Tinbergen 4/15/1907 - 12/21/1988 Dutch-born English zoologist and ethologist; won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1973)
65	Harold Washington 4/15/1922 - 11/25/1987 American politician; first African-American mayor of Chicago
42	Bessie Smith 4/15/1895 - 9/26/1937 American blues singer