April 15

April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining.

Births:

• 1452: Leonardo da Vinci (artist)
• 1843: Henry James (author)
• 1894: Bessie Smith (singer)
• 1933: Elizabeth Montgomery (actress)
• 1950: Amy Wright (actress)
• 1951: Heloise (newspaper columnist)
• 1959: Emma Thompson (actress)
• 1966: Samantha Fox (singer)

Deaths:

• 1865: Abraham Lincoln dies from an assassination attempt made on April 14
• 1942: Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (The Man Without Qualities)

Events:

• 1912: The passenger liner S.S. Titanic sinks
• 1947: Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line in the U.S.

Other significances:

• April 15 or the following Monday (if it falls on the weekend) is the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns. It is a stressful day for most American people. Post offices across the United States stay open until midnight to accommodate the procrastinaters.

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