What happend on 15th April

14.04
16.04
2002

An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into hillside during heavy rain and fog near Pusan, South Korea killing 128.

2001

Easter day (not again until 2063).

1997

Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.

1994

Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and setting up the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).

1989

Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.

1989

Hillsborough disaster: A human stampede occurs at Hillsborough, a football stadium in Sheffield, England, resulting in the loss of 96 lives.

1985

Marvin Hagler defeats Thomas Hearns by a knockout in round three to retain boxing's world Middleweight championship in a fight nicknamed The War.

1983

Tokyo Disneyland opens.

1955

The first McDonald's restaurant opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.

1947

Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, breaking that sport's color line.