What happend on 15th April

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1945

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

1942

George Cross awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta

1940

The Allies start their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which was occupied by Nazi Germany.

1927

Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and Norma and Constance Talmadge become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1924

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

1923

Insulin first became generally available for use by diabetics.

1920

Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.

1915

The Armenian Genocide began when the Ottoman Empire undertook the systematic annihilation of Armenian intellectuals and entrepreneurs within the city of Constantinople and later the entire Armenian population of the Empire.

1912

The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks at about 2:20 a.m. after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic almost three hours earlier.

1892

The General Electric Company is formed through the merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Company.